(85 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
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”
Ernest Hemingway
“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.”
Edward Young
“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
“The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry”
French Proverb
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Charles Baudelaire
“[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
“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
