#prose

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

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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

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗

— John M. Ford

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I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years. ↗