76 Quotes About Poetic-prose
- Author Gene Wolfe
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The hope in her voice now made me think of a flower growing in shadow.
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- Author Laurie Halse Anderson
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Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.
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- Author Dan Simmons
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They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.
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- Author Madeline Miller
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Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.
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- Author Ann Zwinger
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The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and the dipper’s seven stars speed in different directions.
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- Author E.B. White
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My name is Margalo,' said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. 'I come from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; I come from vales of meadowsweet, and I love to whistle.
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- Author Ana Claudia Antunes
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Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream made of pure poetry from divine source. AA
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- Author Lauren DeStefano
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Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
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- Author Gin Love Thompsonson
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It is as vital to know whereyou no longer belongas it is to know whereyou do belong.
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