H. P. Lovecraft

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

American Novelist

Scott Snyder

I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do a lot of work in the first pages of each issue to try to re-establish things and keep the symbolism of a story very tucked beneath the surface.

American Writer

James Dyson

Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.

British Designer

Susanna Clarke

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

English Author

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Australian Author

Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

French Poet

David Frost

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

English Journalist

Noah Feldman

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

American Author

Guillermo del Toro

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

Mexican Director

Jan Morris

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

English Writer

Using 'prosaic' may carry a slightly negative tone, suggesting disappointment or lack of enthusiasm.

Negative Nuance

'Prosaic' can be used sarcastically to imply something is even more boring than it sounds.

Subtle Sarcasm

Describing something as 'prosaic' can suggest it fails to evoke any emotional response.

Emotional Flatness

Remember, when related to writing, 'prosaic' merely refers to prose, not necessarily a lack of beauty.

Not Just Ordinary

'Prosaic' in literature suggests straightforwardness, without the formal structure seen in poetry.

Literary Simplicity

'Prosaic' writing is more about clear communication than artistic flourishes, making it more accessible.

Accessible Writing

 So the reality of architecture is visceral. It's not intellectual. It's not something that comes to us from books and theories. It's the real that we touch -- the door, the window, the threshold, the bed -- such prosaic objects. And yet, I try, in every building, to take that virtual world,

Daniel Libeskind's 17...

 We were a lower middle class family, but that's of course not real poverty. That's not even close. The first time I saw poverty, and poverty's face, was when I was six or seven years old, early 1970s. And it was like a lot of you, kind of a prosaic example, kind of trite.

A conservative's plea:...

 East but the amazing thing about cities is even when they form the most prosaic reason like armored stockyards miracles happen when smart people connect and are able to learn from each other cities have been producing chains of collaborative creativity since Plato and

It’s time to embrace our...

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 we've been having or at least we have been having some swans some geese is there anything very interesting about their migrations as well yeah there are so I mean I actually have a friend I took into the field once name's James prosaic as an artist and I I was with

Elk Conservation in...

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The tribes we lead PIPE...

 it's being checked by the Nokia phone that's reading the band. I'm only putting those up to show you these things are prosaic, this stuff works in these environments. They don't need to be special. So finally, I know that you can do this,

David Birch: A new way...

 were fairly prosaic in origin. They turned out to be lightning or sources of electrical power. But there was one persistent noise that Jansky couldn't identify, and it seemed to appear in his radio headset

Honor Harger: A history...

 went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization-state, together. The second is maybe more prosaic, which is Hong Kong.

Understanding the rise...

 who will put into practice the solutions that I've talked about. The duty to strangers shows itself in small ways and big, prosaic and heroic.