19 Quotes on Prose

• Life is a journey where we sail through storms to reach the sun-kissed shores of our dreams.

  Author: Sofia Rodriguez

• From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

  Author: Mark Strand

• The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

  Author: John Scott

• However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

  Author: James Schuyler

• In true prose everything must be underlined.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I'm a better polemicist in prose.

  Author: Ted Rall

• 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.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

  Author: James Payn

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

  Author: Robert Morgan

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

  Author: Eugenio Montale

• All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

  Author: Moliere

• The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  Author: W. Maugham

• When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

  Author: Kenneth Koch

• I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

  Author: Tracy Kidder

• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  Author: Eyvind Johnson

• I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

  Author: Jim Harrison

• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  Author: Samuel Crothers

• Always be a poet, even in prose.

  Author: Charles Baudelaire

• I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

  Author: David Antin

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