Prose Quotes - page 3

What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology. (Pierre Trudeau)
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!” about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed. View quote
Randall Jarrell
...a novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it... View quote
Randall Jarrell
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. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people... that shadow land between self and reality. View quote
Mark Strand
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well. View quote
Dave Morris
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. View quote
Eugenio Montale
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. View quote
Eugenio Montale
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. (Lynn Abbey)
There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
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. View quote
Robert Creeley
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. View quote
Carol Shields
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. View quote
Harvey Pekar
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. View quote
Beverley Nichols
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. View quote
Buzz Bissinger
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met. View quote
Ben Brantley
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. View quote
David Antin
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. View quote
Dick Schaap
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. (F. L. Lucas)
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. View quote
Helen Vendler
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. View quote
James Schuyler
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. View quote
Jack Prelutsky
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. View quote
John M. Ford