#prose

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.


William Shenstone


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


Robert Creeley


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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.


Mario Cuomo


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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


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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.


Carol Ann Duffy


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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.


John M. Ford


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We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.


James Laughlin


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The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.


Henry James Sumner Maine


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


W. Somerset Maugham


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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.


Rick Moody


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