Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
quote by Neil Gaiman
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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
quote by John Scott
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Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
quote by David Korten
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
quote by Bruno Walter
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
quote by Harold S. Geneen
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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
quote by Donna Tartt
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Poem Versus Prose
You do not like this poem
And I do not like your prose
Enough with your predicates
And your subjects
In this poem you will find
No commas and semicolons
This poem
Is armed with rhythms
Stanzas and shifts
This poem has no end
There are no colons
In this poem
Your prose is replete with nuances
This poem echoes
The plight of the oppressed
And dispossessed
In your prose I find parentheses
This poem speaks of life
Your prose can be edited
Cut this poem and it bleeds
You do not like this poem
And I do not like your prose
Prose has pauses and hyphens
Prose comes to a stop
This poem plugs images
Even in your head
Prose deals with fiction
And nonfiction
This poem can be heard
It can be felt
It speaks of hunger
Of hopelessness
Homelessness
It speaks of a bitter reality
You do not like this poem
poem by Buxton Shippy
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Writing is a way of concentrating upon what you didn't know that you knew (upon what you knew without knowing that you knew).
Gabriel Liiceanu in Forbidden Door
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
quote by Jack Kilby
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A Change Of Time!
A change of time changes everything in life!
Glorious poetry turned into prose for use earlier;
Stories, novels and articles ruled prominent;
With the coming of computer poetry resurrected!
Now everybody enjoys indulging in poetry for fun;
Articles, stories and novels are superseded by poetry!
Many poetry websites entertain new poets daily;
Many enjoy poetry reading and writing at anytime!
Poetry has become cheap product for all to use;
Nobody thought that such a thing could happen!
Nobody buys poetry books but novels and magazines;
Is poetry a use and throw material only in market now?
The things that cannot be expressed in stories, novels
Are done in poetry to satisfy heart, thought and spirit!
poem by Ramesh T A
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I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
quote by Martina Navratilova
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Two schools of thought.
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The lady chose to take offence
Although I said she wrote fine prose
She may not know the difference
between poetry and prose
She thought that she wrote poetry
But what she wrote was free form prose.
I offered no apology
It was not my fault that she chose.
Not to learn the basic rules
defining prose and poetry
Two very different writing schools
in which to show your artistry.
The so called experts can’t agree
and coined the term poetic prose.
Though writing cannot possible
be classed as poetry and prose.
If it’s not metered it is prose
no matter how poetical.
But you’re entitled to compose.
Fine prose and call it poetry.
Though I suggest respectfully
you should be proud of writing prose.
As some do most successfully.
But it was poetry I chose
Thursday,11 March 2010
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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
quote by Bobby Jones
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You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.
quote by Brian McBride
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I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.
quote by Tia Carrere
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
quote by Samuel McChord Crothers
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Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
quote by Oliver Kahn
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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
quote by Nido Qubein
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I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.
quote by Monica Keena
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I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
quote by Robert Mapplethorpe
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
quote by John M. Ford
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