Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Ernest Hemingway

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T.S. Eliot

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They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.

Stendhal

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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Gustave Flaubert

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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.

Susan Sontag

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Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Nicholson Baker

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…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

Louisa May Alcott

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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

Nadeem Aslam

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I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed… 'to look at it through poetry.

L.M. Montgomery

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For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

John Cheever

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