Quotes by Prose Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be. Joyce Johnson prose Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. Joyce Carol Oates discourse prose might I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music. Juliana Hatfield prose kind In true prose everything must be underlined. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel prose literature I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. Kevin Powers prose boundaries I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. Khalil Gibran prose poet life Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. Marshall McLuhan prose clear absence Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. Marvin Bell prose poetry-is I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems. Matthea Harvey prose impulse narrative David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . . Miriam Toews prose erotic masters When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. Miroslav Penkov prose writing beautiful All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. Moliere verses prose literature Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! Moliere prose scholar scholarship Poetry is prose in slow motion. Nicholson Baker slow-motion prose poetry-is To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. Pattiann Rogers prose quality mind I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. Patti Smith prose written havens I like the way the prose and poetry interact. Rachel Zucker prose-and-poetry prose way Prose proposes, verse reverses. Richard Howard prose propose reverse The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. Richard M. Nixon processors prose language Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. Ralph Waldo Emerson prose book «12345»