Pastoral Resources

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.