#pros

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#first #necessarily #political #political campaign #prosperity

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#delicious #full #most #poetry #prose

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#ass #behind #gave #heels #hide

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#being #editorials #i #intimate #just

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. ↗

— George William Curtis

#much #prosperous #sailing #ship #skillful

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#motherhood #peace #progress #prosperity #question

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. ↗

— John Harrington

#dare #doth #never #none #prosper