Lyrical Prose Quotes

#1. A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

Marlon James

#2. Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

Campbell McGrath

#3. Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...

Muse

#4. Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. You breathe fast when you're scared.

Kelli O'Hara

#7. I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#8. Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Antonya Nelson

#9. Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.

Selina Siak Chin Yoke

#10. There are ways to get what you need out of your warrior. You just must be clever in finding them

Kristen Ashley

#11. I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

David Nicholls

#12. We move closer together like sections of a tightened shoelace

Veronica Roth

#13. If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

Dean Kamen

#14. Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed."
from "The Last Runaway

Tracy Chevalier

#15. I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.

Moonshine Noire

#16. As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

John Oliver