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Like ripples dancing across a still lake, laughter cascades and mingles, breaking silence into a remarkable overture of misunderstanding and intimacy.
Author:
Mira Caldwell
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In the silent realms of our mind, where whispers understand but words might fail, the unvoiced thoughts hold profound wisdom unmarred by decay.
Author:
Aria Sevigny
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In the whisper of the pines and the murmurs of the streams, the unfinished symphony of life's lost songs wonder on--every raindrop a clarion call inviting souls to explore unsung melodies.
Author:
Elara Windahrt
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Life is a journey where we sail through storms to reach the sun-kissed shores of our dreams.
Author:
Sofia Rodriguez
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Author:
Edward Young
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Author:
Voltaire
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I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Author:
Leonard Strong
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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Author:
Lee Strasberg
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Author:
Mark Strand
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Author:
George Steiner
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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.
Author:
William Shenstone
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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
Author:
John Scott
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Author:
James Schuyler
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Author:
Dick Schaap
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
Author:
John Ransom
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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
Author:
John Ransom
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Author:
Ted Rall
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Author:
Ted Rall
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
Author:
Ted Rall
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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
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Author:
Cole Porter
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I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
Author:
James Payn
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
Author:
George Orwell
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Author:
George Orwell
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Author:
Beverley Nichols
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
Author:
Rick Moody
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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
Author:
Rick Moody
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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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.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Author:
Moliere
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If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Author:
Lennart Meri
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
Author:
W. Maugham
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
Author:
F. Lucas
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
Author:
David Leavitt
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We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
Author:
James Laughlin
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Author:
Walter Landor
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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
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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
Author:
Tracy Kidder
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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
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In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Author:
Denis Johnson
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A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
Author:
Johannes Jensen
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Author:
Elfriede Jelinek
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
Author:
Howard Hodgkin
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Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Author:
Donal Henahan
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The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Author:
Donal Henahan
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
Author:
John Hawkes
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No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
Author:
Ronald Harwood
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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Author:
Jim Harrison
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
Author:
Neil Harris
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Author:
David Hare
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Author:
Robert Graves
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Author:
Christopher Fry
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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
Author:
John Ford
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Author:
Carol Duffy
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
Author:
John Drinkwater
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Author:
Peter Davison
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Author:
George Curtis
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Author:
Mario Cuomo
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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
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There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Author:
Robert Creeley
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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
Author:
Robert Creeley
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
Author:
Judy Collins
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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.
Author:
Judy Collins
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
Author:
John Cheever
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Author:
Thomas Bulfinch
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
Author:
William Bryant
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Author:
James Broughton
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.
Author:
Gregory Bateson
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Author:
Paul Auster
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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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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Author:
Lynn Abbey
