Julia Gillard

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism.

Australian Statesman

Natalie Babbitt

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

American Writer

George Steiner

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.

American Critic

Virginia Woolf

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

British Author

Kevin Powers

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

John M. Ford

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

Robert Creeley

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

American Poet

Nick Hornby

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

English Writer

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

James Payn

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

English Novelist

Prose is the opposite of poetry; it does not require a specific structure or rhyme.

Not Poetry

Prose resembles ordinary spoken language, making it more relatable in daily communication.

Everyday Language

Prose can be just as expressive as poetry, using literary devices like metaphors and similes.

Expressive Variety

Beyond literal writing, 'prose' metaphorically describes the mundane aspects of life.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'prose' to describe routine life often implies a longing for more excitement or variety.

Contrast to Excitement

As an adjective, 'prosaic' means something is lacking in distinction or not noteworthy.

Lacks Distinction

When something is described as prosaic, it suggests an absence of creativity or flair.

Absence of Flair

Using 'prosaic' emphasizes the ordinary nature of something, making it seem commonplace.

Ordinary

 I've read this book nine times and to my mind is really the finest novel I've read that came out to the continent and you know that's all telling because there's amazing novels on this continent and more than anything is kind of what he set out to do this poet trying to write prose and saying oh this is what I

The reality constructed...

 and the ways in which some characters are actively avoiding the reality of their actions. But in other instances, the characters’ shifting memories align perfectly; capturing the collective trauma that haunts the story. Though "Beloved" touches on dark subjects, the book is also filled with beautiful prose,

Why should you read Toni...

 are written in regular prose. But if you read carefully, you'll notice that Shakespeare's characters turn to poetry, and iambic pentameter in particular, for many of the same reasons that we look to poetry in our own lives. Feeling passionate, introspective, or momentous.

Why Shakespeare loved...

 Poetry has a shape that we can usually recognize. Its line breaks help readers navigate the rhythms of a poem. But what if those line breaks disappeared? Would it lose its essence as a poem? Maybe not. Enter the prose poem. Prose poems use vivid images and wordplay

What makes a poem … a...

 Can we use them? Can we apply the techniques that worked here to this? T.S. Eliot once said, "One of the most momentous things that can happen to a culture is that they acquire a new form of prose." I think that's wrong, but --

Clay Shirky: How the...

 where he spent most of his life writing theatre, poetry and prose. While Beckett had a lifelong love of language, he also made space for silence by incorporating gaps, pauses and moments of emptiness into his work.

Why should you read...

 And his call to convergence still resonates through most of what we're trying to make now. "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,

Mind-blowing stage...

 Stage and screen engage some of our senses directly. We see and hear the interactions of the characters and the setting. But with prose fiction, all you have is static symbols on a contrasting background.

How to write descriptivel...

 60s he said he was wanting a timeless prose in which archaism and hallowed associations were to be avoided and a sense of reality sought now the sense of

Adam Nicolson: The King...

 it's a great piece of prose and it contains a really profound truth that's worth pondering Harry