#prose

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

— H. L. Mencken

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We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. ↗

— George Montagu

#dilemma #make #melancholy #peace #prosecute

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

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It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

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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. ↗

— George Orwell

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#authors #better #four-letter #goes #good

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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

— Virginia Woolf

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