prose quotes
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end.Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle'.
Unkneaded dough-baked prose.
Prose = words in their best order;poetry = the best words in the best order.
: Madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? : Only with those in verse, Mr Witwoud. I never pin up my hair with prose.
Commitment seems to live more in the poetry of our aspirations than in the prose of the realities we have created.
They shut me up in Prose As when a little girl They put me in the Closet Because they liked me'still'.
And this unpolished rugged verse I chose As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.
What judgement I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as theyare, come crowding in so fast uponme, that myonlydifficulty isto choose or reject; to run them into verse or give them the other harmony of prose.
Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose'are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry: on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Gertrude Stein's prose song is a cold, black suet- puddingof fabulously reptilian length.
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Par ma foi! il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien! Good heavens! I've been speaking prose for forty years without knowing it!
You can always count on a murderer fora fancy prose style.
Good prose is like a window pane.
In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them.
And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write shows The difference there is betwixt Nature and Art: I court others in verse: but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart.
A merely great intellect can produce great prose, but not poetry, not one line.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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