Pastoral Resources

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.