#prose

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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.


Ronald Harwood


#enthusiasm #excitement #first #i #i think

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.


Lafcadio Hearn


#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.


Eliot Spitzer


#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.


Mario Cuomo


#govern #poetry #prose #you

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


#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

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


Carol Ann Duffy


#energy #got #hasn #just #prose

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


John M. Ford


#believe #clarity #every #expression #i

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.


Gijs de Vries


#cases #collect #confidential #convicted #court

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.


Edward Young


#admired #beyond #explained #logic #mystery

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.


Marguerite Young


#back #between #book #course #drunkards