“This is not at all bad, except as prose.”
Gore Vidal
“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
Beverley Nichols
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”
John Wain
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”
Ernest Hemingway
“I froze before the keyboard. I couldn't think of a damn thing to say. No poems, no prose, no words. The pain cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel
“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.”
Edward Young
“The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry”
French Proverb
