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

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about architecture

I think my prose reads as if English were my second...

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about language, end, time

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about art, philosophy, action, pleasure, poetry, life, magic, world

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in...

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Quote by James Payn about respect, good, good luck

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who...

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about man, common sense, people

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, poets

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there...

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Quote by Edward Young about poetry, logic

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

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

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature, writers, poets

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting...

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Quote by Luther Burbank about nature, judges

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the...

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Quote by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen about literature, evolution, problems

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Quote by James Broughton about poetry

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