Prose Quotes

• There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Poetry
  • Connection
  • Exist

• The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Heart
  • Literature
  • Tradition

• Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

  

  Moliere
  • Knowing
  • Prose

• Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Freedom
  • Poet
  • Ideal

• Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Prose
  • Verses

• 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.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hard

• When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Prose

• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Fame
  • Prose
  • Temple

• I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Ability
  • Songs
  • Prose

• 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.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  William Zinsser
  • Writing
  • Confused
  • Annoyed

• 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.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Poet

• 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.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Behinds
  • Brilliant
  • Mask

• 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.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Might

• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Poetry
  • Motion
  • Prose

• You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Action
  • Prose

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