Prose Quotes - Page 9

• I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Screens

  "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

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• Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Government, Agitation, Governance

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• The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

  George Orwell

  Past, Race, Years

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Exercise, Movement

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, 2012.

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• I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

  Max Ehrmann

  Humble, Noble, Mood

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

  Robert Schumann

  Struggle, Law, Whole Life

  "Early Letters of Robert Schumann".

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• Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

  Debby Applegate

  Style, Stories, Research

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

  Edward Tufte

  Artist, Editing, Design

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• Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Country, Art, Strong

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

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• An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

  Abigail Padgett

  Appreciation, Scotch, Taste

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• MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Believe, Essence

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• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

  Plato

  Music, Simple, Simplicity

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

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• From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Views, Reader

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.

  Rose Tremain

  Moving, Writing, Journey

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• I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

  Judy Collins

  Dream, Song, Morning

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• Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

  Marvin Bell

  Poetry Is

  Marvin Bell (1994). “A Marvin Bell reader: selected poetry and prose”, University Press of New England

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• I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

  Tracy Kidder

  Glasses, Want, Clear

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• Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

  Henry Green

  Night, Long, Feelings

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• However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

  James Schuyler

  Poetry, Poetic, Sentences

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Keys, Magic, Language

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1251, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faces, Written, Face To Face

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.145, Vintage

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