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.

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.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

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

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

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

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.