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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

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

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

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

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.