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Prose

«You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.»
Author: Mario Cuomo | About: Poetry, Prose | Keywords: campaign, prose
«Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.»
Author: Michiko Kakutani | About: Prose | Keywords: dab, garnish, garnished, glossy, irony, pinch
«A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.»
«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»
«Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou»
«Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over»
«In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon (President) | About: Poetry, Prose, Television | Keywords: candidate
«Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.»