Prose Quotes

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

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.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.