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• I’ve written a lot of prose. I just haven’t published it.

  Patti Smith

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  Tags in Published, Prose

• The very best moment of writing ‘Swamplandia!’ was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest.

  Karen Russell

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  Tags in Realization, Prose

• The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer’s time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

  George Saintsbury

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  Tags in Italian, Prose

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

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  Tags in Energy, Prose

• 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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  Tags in Poetic, Prose, Language

• Many of today’s verses are prose and bad prose.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Prose

• There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

  Eugenio Montale

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  Tags in Poetry, Prose, Apparent

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

  H. L. Mencken

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  Tags in Prose, Charm

• I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I’m dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

  Lynn Abbey

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  Tags in Prose, Bullet

• 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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  Tags in Prose, Swoon, Sinks, Poetry, Deal

• All those authors there, most of whom of course I’ve never met. That’s the poetry side, that’s the prose side, that’s the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you’ve enjoyed.

  Norman MacCaig

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  Tags in Prose, Fishing

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Tags in Prose, Concentrating

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

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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

  Tags in Prose, Recollected