445 Quotes About Prose

Prose, in his experience, calls for many more words than poetry. There is no point in embarking on prose if one lacks confidence that one will be alive the next day to carry on with the task.

Another time he woke me up in the middle of the night, lifted me off the pale blue sheets, led me outside to the stars and whispered: Look, Annie, look—there is no space for anything but dreaming. I listened, sleepily, wandered back to bed andfound myself wide awake, staring at the ceiling, unable to dream at all

Four other old folk emerged one by one to join their brother. All five siblings wore cheap polyester clothes, and standing in a group they looked very much alike. They differed only in their heights, like the fingers of a single hand.

Several times I ran into a crowd of [redacted], dozens of them. They were not like the other [redacted] that sometimes gathered together and sometimes separated--this crowd stayed consistently together as they walked, a little like the moon's reflection on water, which keeps floating in a discrete shape no matter how the waves tug.

I am not here to be a fighterThere is real work to be doneA softness to pass on.

When I think back to the first time we met, it feels like a dream," you said, only a few days later.And thus you voiced what came true only a few months later.It had been a dream.[...]"Even then, you have sealed our preterite," I said."Why do you say something like this," you asked me."Because we never had the chance to share the present.

Poetry is queer really, just by nature.

It is brave to be ruthless towards the mother.

We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.