Prose Quotes

• Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Lies
  • Crime
  • Prose

• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Written
  • Prose

• Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Creative
  • Prose
  • Divine Comedy

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

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Heart
  • Literature
  • Tradition

• Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Simple
  • Actors
  • Might

• 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

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

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Prose
  • Verses

• I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Write
  • Challenging
  • Prose

• 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

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

  

  Moliere
  • Knowing
  • Prose

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Vulnerable

• 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

• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Poetry
  • Motion
  • Prose

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