Famous quotes containing the words prose and/or style:
“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)