(80 quotes found)
“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
“[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.”
George Steiner
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”
“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 dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry”
French Proverb
“Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it”
Moliere
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“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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