Prose famous quotes

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Prose

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Roots #Verbs #Prose

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
-- Basil Bunting

#Purpose #Wells #Prose

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
-- Boris Pasternak

#Complicated #Immensity #Prose

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy
-- Carol Ann Duffy

#Energy #Prose

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
-- Charles Churchill

#Poet #Rapture #Prose

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

#Long #Format #Prose

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
-- David Hare

#Poetry #Century #Prose

My medium is prose, not the novel.
-- David Shields

#Novel #Mediums #Prose

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,
-- Derek Walcott

#Summer #Prose #Lemons

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
-- Dick Schaap

#Adjectives #Cliche #Prose

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
-- E. M. Forster

#Passion #Classic #Prose

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Tests #Should #Prose

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
-- Eugenio Montale

#Today #Prose #Verses

Prose talks and poetry sings.
-- Franz Grillparzer

#Poetry #Prose

Prose is walking; poetry is flying
-- Galway Kinnell

#Flying #Poetry Is #Prose

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
-- Gerald Durrell

#Atmosphere #Produce #Prose

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
-- Harold Bloom

#Beautiful #Paragraph #Prose

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.
-- Jairam Ramesh

#Government #Agitation #Prose

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
-- James Broughton

#Walks #Prose #Walking

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
-- James Payn

#Prose #Verses

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

#Poetry #Prose #Sentences

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Faces #Second Thoughts #Prose

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
-- Jim Harrison

#Writing #Prose

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.
-- Jim Michaels

#Priceless #Prose

A page of good prose remains invincible.
-- John Cheever

#Pages #Invincible #Prose

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
-- Jonathan Raban

#Presidential #Bars #Prose

In true prose everything must be underlined.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Literature #Prose

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
-- Kevin Powers

#Boundaries #Prose

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
-- Mark Kurlansky

#Haiti #Portraits #Prose

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
-- Marvin Bell

#Poetry Is #Prose

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
-- Miriam Toews

#Masters #Prose

Poetry is prose in slow motion.
-- Nicholson Baker

#Slow Motion #Poetry Is #Prose

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
-- P. G. Wodehouse

#Speed #Dialogue #Prose

Prose proposes, verse reverses.
-- Richard Howard

#Reverse #Propose #Prose

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
-- Robert Breault

#Poetry #Pretending #Prose

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Faults #Attention #Prose

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
-- Sigmund Freud

#Caring #Share #Prose

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.
-- Steve Grand

#Matter #Facts #Prose

I'm a better polemicist in prose.
-- Ted Rall

#Prose

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
-- Tracy Kidder

#Writing #Revision #Prose

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
-- Vera Brittain

#Eye #Poet #Prose

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
-- Virginia Woolf

#Writing #Poetry Is #Prose

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
-- Vita Sackville-West

#Poor #Prose #Inadequate

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
-- W. H. Auden

#Listening #Prose

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Steps #Poet #Prose

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
-- William C. Bryant

#Eloquence #Prose

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.
-- William Strunk, Jr.

#Sometimes #Rich #Prose

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
-- Wilson Follett

#Syntax #Certain #Prose

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
-- Alex Lemon

#Writing #Challenges #Prose

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.
-- Alex Lemon

#Creative #Poetic #Prose

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
-- Gemma Files

#Prose #Bits

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
-- Rachel Zucker

#Prose And Poetry #Way #Prose

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.
-- Miroslav Penkov

#Beautiful #Writing #Prose

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
-- Pattiann Rogers

#Mind #Quality #Prose

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
-- David Biespiel

#Writing #Long #Prose

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.
-- Ron Padgett

#Writing #Different #Prose