prose quotes

• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. (Walter Benjamin) [//stage]
• Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. (Raymond Chandler) [/life/artist/art]
• Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [money//life/roses]
• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. (David Hare) [poetry///poetry]
• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. (Ernest Hemingway) [/paper/take/normal]
• The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. (Ernest Hemingway) [thing//human/take]
• Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. (Ernest Hemingway) []
• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. (Cole Porter) [words/words/]
• The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. (Virginia Woolf) [essence//soul & body/mind]

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