Quotes About Prose

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

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.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

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

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.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

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.