445 Quotes About Prose

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.

Lacing prose with supposed facts that actually lack meaning is but one case of a more general habit of writing text superfluous to the goal of relaying information.

I want to be the one you run to.I want to be the one you miss.I want your arms to hold me through.I want your lips to be mine to kiss.I want to be the one you’re in love with. Eyes opening up my heart like a locksmith.I want to be the one you snuggle. Together creating jealous couples. Love is one of the greatest treasures.Something that cannot be measured.Take me with you on this journey.As long as we’re together, there’re no worries.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” — and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce’s feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct us toward the pleasure of its use-function when monetised, a pleasure seldom associated with poetry, and one that might lead to the company of more pros. He continues: “If I can get a twofer, and the trick looks like Rafael Nadal, I’m in heaven.

Red flashes of light leaped in front of her eyes like ballet dancers.

Prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.