Prose Quotes
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.
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I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.
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Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.
