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Prose Quotes

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. Walter Savage Landor
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over."
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. Ernest Hemingway
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in..."
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Galway Kinnell quote: "Prose is walking; poetry is flying"
Prose is walking; poetry is flying Galway Kinnell
Franz Grillparzer quote: "Prose talks and poetry sings."
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
Robert Graves quote: "Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. Robert Graves
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the..."
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. Eugenio Montale
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably. John Cheever
George Byron quote: "That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all,..."
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain? poetic souls delight in prose insane George Byron
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. Story Musgrave
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
(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now it lights me as I walk to think I have two acts of King John tonight, and shall next read Richard the Second. It is poetry that I want now -- long poems. I want the concentration and the romance, and the words all glued together, fused, glowing; having no time to waste any more on prose. When I was twenty I liked Eighteenth Century prose; now it's poetry I want, so I... Virginia Woolf
Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art form one would praise by saying it's "invisible"? By definition, art transcends the ordinary, calls attention to itself, and offers virtuosity as its calling card. One that makes it possible to do what metaphor does so well: illuminate what... Diane Ackerman

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