You can always count on a murderer fora fancy prose style.

-Nabokov,Vladimir
  Humbert Humbert. Lolita, ch.1.

Good prose is like a window pane.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'Why I  Write'.

In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'Politics and the English Language', collected in Shooting an Elephant (1950).

And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

-Pope, Alexander
  'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.187^8.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan.

What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write shows The difference there is betwixt Nature and Art: I court others in verse: but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart.

-Prior, Matthew
  'A BetterAnswer', stanza 4.

   A merely great intellect can produce great prose, but not poetry, not one line.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 26 Feb.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

-Wain,John Barrington
  BBC radio broadcast,13 Jan.

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

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
The Captain's Death Bed,'Reading' (published1950).