Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
- Ernest HemingwayYou campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
- Mario CuomoWho among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou
- Charles BaudelaireGlossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.
- Michiko KakutaniIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
- Richard M. NixonA 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 CrothersProse 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 LandorThe lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical
- William Shenstone