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“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.”

Memoir Prose Autobiography Short Stories Beat Prose Poetry Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood

Author:Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings

“and i said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this.”

Inspirational Prose Poetry Body Positivity

Author:Nayyirah Waheed

“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide, because if you ask me about hurt and love I will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it. Don’t be scared. Go. Love.”

Love Hurt Youth Prose Free Let Go Heart Break Move On Broken Hearted Prose Poetry The Glass Child Charlotte Eriksson

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.”

Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home, and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore. Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the air by myself in the snow and I was not okay.”

Love Hard Home Hurt Company Loneliness Youth Cold Lonely Snow Alone Prose Smoking Myself Songwriter Not Okay Prose Poetry The Glass Child Going On

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

Way Writing Different Environment Particular Mediums Prose Poetry Is Catching Prose Poetry

Author:Story Musgrave

“I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.”

Knows World Writing Kind Persons Art Use Form Prose Mute Hermits Recluse Prose Poetry

Author:Maya Angelou

“I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.”

Mind States Inspired Prose State Of Mind Prose Poetry

Author:William Beckett

“Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.”

Prose Poetry Is Melody Prose Poetry

Author:William Beckett

“What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.”

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Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.”

Remember Young Order Wish Poet Definitions Clever Prose Homely Prose Poetry Best Poetry Prose And Poetry Best Poet

Book:Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.”

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Book:The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.”

Book Body Universe Secret Sea Prose Distinction Poetry Is Composition Guardian Tense Spills Blur Eros Orchids Prose Poetry

Author:Forrest Gander