#prose

Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #even #poet #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

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life #love #necessary #prosecution #undertaking

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#contempt #court #dagger #five #give

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. ↗

— Star Jones

#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#become #fonder #i #maybe #poetry

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. ↗

— William Kunstler

#america #brought #by the people #equally #establishment

In true prose everything must be underlined. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#must #prose #true