"And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely."
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"According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse.""
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"The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence."
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"Good prose is written only face to face with poetry."
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"My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary."
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"Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard."
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"Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be."
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"Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!"
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