"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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“What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.”
“And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.”
“Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.”
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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
“Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.”
“I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.”