Prose Quotes - Page 3

• La luz del sol 's una cosa que necesita una ventana Antes de entrar en una habitación oscura. Las ventanas no existen". Así que dos viejos poetas, encorvados en su cerveza en la bruma baja de un salón de la posada, mientras que la charla corrió ruidosamente por ellos, glib con prosa.

  R. S. Thomas

  Beer, Dark, Two

  R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”

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• What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.

  Yvor Winters

  New Experiences, Feelings, Understanding

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• Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Light, Deception, Important

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• [Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Fiction, Half, Literature

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• Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Aphorism, Translate

  Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz,'The Literature Professors' Literature Professor', in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall1978.

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• The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

  Marsden Hartley

  Travel, Reading, Joy

  Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press

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• coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.

  David Mermin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Eccentric

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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• Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Song, Cutting, Black

  'Time and Western Man' (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

  Colorín colorado

  Purpose, Wells

  Basil Bunting (1994). “Three Essays”

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• As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Ideas, Knowing, Long

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). "The Theory of Political Economy", Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• El Código Da Vinci bien podría ser la única novela jamás escrita que comienza con la palabra "renombrado"... Creo que la primera palabra que me avisó de que estaba a punto de pasar varias horas en compañía de uno de los peores estilistas de la prosa de la historia de la literatura fue ésta. Poner detalles curriculares en modificadores complejos sobre nombres propios o descripciones definidas es lo que se hace en los relatos periodísticos sobre muertes; simplemente no se hace al describir un suceso en una narración... ¿Por qué seguí leyendo? Porque Londres Heathrow está muy lejos del aeropuerto internacional de San Francisco.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

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• Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

  Donald Hall

  Arte, Filosofía, Historia

  DONALD HALL (1973). “WRITING WELL”

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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Historical

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• One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

  May Sarton

  Forever, Done, Goes On

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• La armonía de época y la melodía de estilo tienen más peso del que generalmente se imagina en el juicio que emitimos sobre la escritura y los escritores. Como prueba de ello, reflexionemos sobre qué textos de las Escrituras, qué versos de poesía o qué épocas recordamos y citamos más, ya sea en verso o en prosa, y comprobaremos que sólo son musicales.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). "Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc", p.116

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• A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

  E. B. White

  Style, Spirit, Imagine

  William Strunk Jr. y E.B. White (1962). "Los Elementos de Estilo"

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• The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Clever, Garden, Tea

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.157, e-artnow

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• Deja un poco de espacio a tu cláusula principal. La prosa no es como el boxeo; el escritor hábil telegrafía deliberadamente su golpe, sabiendo que el lector quiere recibir el mensaje directamente en la barbilla.

  William Safire

  Knowing, Space, Boxing

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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• Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

  William Zinsser

  Adjectives, Soil, Lagoons

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• Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophical, Writing, Color

  Sidney Hook (1987). "Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century", Harpercollins

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• With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

  Herbert Gold

  Sweet, Stories, Short Story

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• Nos referimos a la narración breve en prosa, que requiere de media hora a una o dos horas de lectura.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Two, Half, Narrative

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.612, Broadview Press

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• It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Determination, Opportunity, Dull

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• Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Voice, Imagination

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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