Best Poetic Prose Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“She didn’t want resurrection. She wanted rest that didn’t require rebirth. She wanted to be seen without being punished for it.”

Vulnerability Poetic Prose Southern Gothic Mercy And Forgiveness Hope In Darkness Altar Built Grief And Grace Haunting Beauty Rest Not Rebirth Tender Defiance

Book:Honey Girl: A Lyrical Southern Gothic Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Source: Honey Girl: A Lyrical Southern Gothic Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“Shelby looked over to see Andrew silently mouthing syllables to himself, as if he were part of an ecstatic rite. He grinned as he bit fricatives and tongued plosives. He was tasting English origins, mulling over words ripped from bronze-smelling hoards. Words that had slept beneath centuries of dust and small rain, sharp and bright as scale mail. Poetry had never moved her quite so much as drama. She loved the shock of colloquy, the beat and treble of words doing what they had to on stage. Andrew preferred the echo of poems buried alive.”

Fantasy Fiction Poetic Prose Old English

Book:Pile of Bones

Source: Pile of Bones

“I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him.”

Poetic Prose Othello

Book:Othello

Source: Othello

“It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.”

Poetic Prose Word Play Swooning Over Sentences Synaesthesia Pretty Prose

Book:The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Ojalá cobraran voz mis brazos, y mis manos, y mi pelo, y mis pies, por el arte de Dédalo o de algún dios, para agarrarse todos de tus rodillas, conjurándote con llanto y con palabras de todas las clases.”

Greek Tragedy Poetic Prose Tragical

Book:Hecuba

Source: Hecuba

“What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably. “She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”

Intrigue Poetic Prose Dark Secrets Historical Mystery Romantic Tension Journalistic Ethics London Fiction Crime Solving Duo Flawed Protagonist Nazi Crimes

Book:The Wasp Trap

Source: The Wasp Trap

“My writing is not linear — it is a hybrid memoir: fragments of a soul, stitched together with poetry, confession, and truth.”

Poetic Prose Emotional Journey Confessional Writing Soulful Reflections Faith And Truth Hybrid Memoir Literary Memoir Fragments Of The Soul Healing Through Words Therapeutic Memoir

Author:Phoenix Moon

“Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.”

Poetic Spells Angels Witches Witchcraft Gnomes Gardens Poetic Prose Witchcraft And Spells

Book:A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Source: A Curious Tale of the In-Between

“From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.”

Urban Fantasy Poetic Prose Swooning Over Sentences

Book:Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 108, September 2015

Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 108, September 2015

“Gentlemen,” he said, and the word cut neat and cool through the lingering noise. “We are gathered to bind the fates of our states together, not with mere treaties, but with the iron certainty of a road.” A breath. A rustle of shirt cuffs. “Not a rut through the mud, not a track for cattle,” he continued, “but a grand artery. A marvel worthy of the Republic. From Baltimore to the west, to the frontier and the territories beyond—where commerce may flow, and with it, the lifeblood of our nation.”

Legacy Historical Fiction Remembrance Women S Fiction Emotional Healing Poetic Prose Ghost Story Spiritual Fiction Pennsylvania History Appalachian Folklore

Book:Mountain Laurel

Source: Mountain Laurel

“The pale blue evening light of fading shadows crashes violently against the hill behind the town—facing radical orange and poisoned greens. It steams upward against a bluish sky that has swallowed every cloud in this modern summer May.”

Contemporary Poetry Poetic Prose Atmospheric Vivid Imagery Visual Writing Aesthetic Language Color Symbolism Modern Nature Seasonal Reflections Surreal Landscapes

Book:The Willow Song

Source: The Willow Song

“Our story began with uncertainty, and with uncertainty, it ended—not with a bang, but a whisper.”

Love Quotes Love Story Uncertainty Echoes Psychological Fiction Poetic Prose Modern Literature Literary Quotes Endings And Beginnings T S Eliot

Book:We Are Everyone

Source: We Are Everyone

“Quem quer que tivesse dado a ele a oportunidade de dançar através das estrelas, com nada maior que a liberdade como parceira, zombara cruelmente de sua inocência em achar que teria a chance por muito tempo.”

Poetic Prose Estrelas Poetico

Book:Raízes, Lendas & Sangue - Uma Releitura do Folclore Brasileiro

Source: Raízes, Lendas & Sangue - Uma Releitura do Folclore Brasileiro

“Dust arranged itself as if it had been waiting for the shape of his step.”

Fantasy Romance Fantasy Fiction Poetic Prose Mythical Romance

Author:Ntrllghts