“ Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ”
- Michiko Kakutani- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. ”
- David Hare- Copy
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“ I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. ”
- Donal Henahan- Copy
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“ Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ”
- Beverley Nichols- Copy
- 2.2K
“ It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
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“ Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ”
- Beverly Nichols- Copy
- 157
“ The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ”
- Beverly Nichols- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes. ”
- Cole Porter- Copy
- 206
“ The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need. ”
- Duke of Buckingham- Copy
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