The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Rod Sterling
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Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
Sherman Alexie
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
John Scott
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Samuel McChord Crothers
It sounds like a Danielle Steel novel -- it's full of prose, it's full of pretty language, it's full of heart-tugging memories.
Dan Cogdell
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.
William Shenstone
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare ... animated, accessible prose and ... resonant panorama of Elizabethan England.
Stephen Greenblatt
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.
Christopher Fry
Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that will be in print for a long time. He'll be sadly missed as a teacher and a friend by so many.
Doug Brinkley
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
I've grown up on Woody's movies and his prose.
David Remnick
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Donal Henahan
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.
Lee Strasberg
Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
Ann Beattie
For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.
Camilo Jose Cela
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
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