Quotes by Prose I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. Alex Lemon prose challenges writing The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose. Alex Lemon prose poetic creative EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Ambrose Bierce prose wisdom sometimes I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. Andrei Tarkovsky prose screens Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. Barbara Kingsolver prose verbs roots Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. Basil Bunting prose wells purpose My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy Carol Ann Duffy prose energy Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Charles Churchill rapture prose poet I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. David Antin format prose long For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. David Biespiel prose writing long The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare prose century poetry I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing. David Rees prose-writing prose writing My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields prose mediums novel Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor. Derek Walcott lemons prose summer Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Dick Schaap cliche prose adjectives All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. Donald Miller prose pieces book It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality. Ellen Glasgow prose tests should I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose. Emily Dickinson prose possibility house Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. Eugenio Montale verses prose today Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound prose wells poetry 12345»
