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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. Eugenio Montale

Creative Comedy Dante Divine Prose Did After Centuries Height Produce Strangely

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. Eyvind Johnson

Poet Others Back Backdrop Finding Some Generally He Prose Looks Acceptable Narrator Passed Years Achieved Achievements While Against Less

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. F. L. Lucas

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose. Floyd Skloot

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Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer

Poetry Prose Talks Sings

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. Franz Wright

Me Poetic Prose Most Interests

One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, 'Legends of Red Sonja,' which is full of wonderful little short stories written exclusively by my favorite female writers of comics, prose, and gaming. Gail Simone

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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s. Garrett Hedlund

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. George Orwell

Atmosphere Above Prose Most Always Literature Forms Novel Orthodoxy Damaging

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis

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I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. Greg Rucka

Me Background Prose Come Led Short Short Story Story Novels

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century. Guillermo del Toro

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Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. Gunter Grass

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. H. L. Mencken

Enough Must Charms Poetry Prose Also Done Convince

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. Haruki Murakami

Write Prose Days Sophisticated Trying Stories Fantastic Younger

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. Jacqueline Carey

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Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works. James Bernard Frost

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. James Broughton

Me Walks Dances Poetry Prose

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. James Laughlin

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A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific. James Patterson

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