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Here are the quotes with the word prose in them. In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M.Nixon Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

-Richard M.Nixon

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Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

-Aung San Suu Kyi

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

-Ernest Hemingway

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

-Horace Walpole

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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

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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.

-Lafcadio Hearn

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

-John Cheever

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

-Virginia Woolf

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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

-Ben Okri

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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

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

-John Drinkwater

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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

-China Mieville

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

-George Orwell

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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

-Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

-Beverley Nichols

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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

-Paul Auster

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

-Voltaire

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

-Charles Baudelaire

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

-James Schuyler

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

-H.L.Mencken

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

-J.K.Rowling

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

-Camille Paglia

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

-George William Curtis

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

-Edward Young

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M.Nixon
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway

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