#prose

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. ↗

— Bill Scott

#criminal #crooks #department #did #get

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #just #lot #prose #published

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bear #been #brought #claims #clear

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#many #prose #today #verses

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗