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#prose

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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.


Story Musgrave


#appears #being #embedded #form #i

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.


Solomon Ortiz


#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.


George Orwell


#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.


George Orwell


#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.


Camille Paglia


#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.


John C. Ransom


#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose

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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.


Samuel Johnson


#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.


Amy Klobuchar


#enforce #favor #fear #finally #good

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.


Amy Klobuchar


#follow #get #had #hot #i






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