#pros

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #minimalism #prose #writing #age

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#before #believed #beyond #circumstances #created

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#grand jury #hears #jury #only #prosecutor

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#also #basis #character #democracy #during

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#earthquake #like #plague #prosperity #war

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#centuries #comedy #creative #dante #did

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #like #love #pressured #prose

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#decision #instead #interested #made #more