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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Howard Hodgkin

Old

Prose

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Architecture

Prose

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.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

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.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison

Prose

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

Poetry

Prose

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

Poetry

Prose

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

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