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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
Shelby Foote
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.


William C. Bryant
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.


Martin Luther
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Story Musgrave
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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.


Robert Musil
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
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So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.


H. L. Mencken
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.


Robert Morgan
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Leah Ward Sears
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The body says what words cannot.


Martha Graham
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.


Pauley Perrette
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Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.
Anthony Foxx
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Paul Scofield
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
Yo-Yo Ma