#prose

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— George Montagu

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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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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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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. ↗

— Rick Moody

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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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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. ↗

— Ted Rall

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

— Ted Rall

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Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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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