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Poetry often emphasizes the beauty of language and the sound of words. The use of rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language can create a sensory experience that goes beyond mere information or prose. This aesthetic appeal can captivate and engage readers or listeners. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 6 months ago
Good prose is like a window-pane – George Orwell	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. – Lee Strasberg	added by Normando 3 years ago
(S)he’s extraordinarily experienced — and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out — (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry. – Iowa President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Her strengths, which are the fact that she’s extraordinarily experienced, and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out, sometimes could make her more cautious and her campaign more prose than poetry. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Céline	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. – Beverly Nichols	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. – Paul Valery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows. – Peter Brodie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario M Cuomo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. – Boris Pasternak	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Poetry often emphasizes the beauty of language and the sound of words. The use of rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language can create a sensory experience that goes beyond mere information or prose. This aesthetic appeal can captivate and engage readers or listeners.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

Good prose is like a window-pane

– George Orwell

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

– Lee Strasberg

added by Normando
3 years ago

(S)he’s extraordinarily experienced — and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out — (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry.

– Iowa President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Her strengths, which are the fact that she’s extraordinarily experienced, and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out, sometimes could make her more cautious and her campaign more prose than poetry.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

– David Hare

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

– Salman Rushdie

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

– Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

– Ernest Hemingway

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

– Ernest Hemingway

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

– Beverly Nichols

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

– Paul Valery

added by anonymous
13 years ago

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

– Peter Brodie