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«The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them»
«The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry»
«Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.»
«Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Architecture,
Poetry,
Prose
| Keywords:
architecture, baroque, decoration, decorations, Interior, interior decoration, prose
«The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.»
«The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
anarchical, atmosphere, damaging, prose, ruinous, the novel
«The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.»
«Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
admiring, monument, prose, talk of, The Grave
«The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.»
«The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.»
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