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Tag Name "Prose" (453)

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In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
David Bellos
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
Yann Martel
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
Emily Dickinson
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
Abraham Coles
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The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.
Stephen Graham Jones
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I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
Blaise Cendrars
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
E. M. Forster
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If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.
Anna Brackett
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The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
Andreï Makine
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
George Saintsbury
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Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
Per Brinch Hansen
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I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.
Michael Gira
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Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.
Louis Auchincloss
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The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
James Kelman
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy
Carol Ann Duffy
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
Anthony Doerr
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
George Orwell
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A page of good prose remains invincible.
John Cheever
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I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.
Rigoberto Gonzalez
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
T. S. Eliot
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There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.
David Bezmozgis
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The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
Richard M. Nixon
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One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
Pattiann Rogers
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Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
Martin Amis
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