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I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. -- William Beckett
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros. -- Forrest Gander
Prose talks and poetry sings. -- Franz Grillparzer
For me, prose walks, poetry dances. -- James Broughton
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. -- William C. Bryant
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. -- Mario Cuomo
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. -- H. L. Mencken
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. -- Kevin Powers
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. -- Elia Kazan
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. -- Mary Karr
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. -- Gunter Grass
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. -- Robert Creeley
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. -- David Hare
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. -- Virginia Woolf
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. -- Helen Vendler
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. -- Walter Savage Landor
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. -- Michael Tippett
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. -- Story Musgrave
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. -- Story Musgrave
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. -- Eugenio Montale
Beer is prose. Wine is poetry. -- Jennifer Rosen
Poetry is prose in slow motion. -- Nicholson Baker
Prose is walking; poetry is flying -- Galway Kinnell
Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Poetry must be as well written as prose. -- Ezra Pound
I like the way the prose and poetry interact. -- Rachel Zucker
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. -- Paul Valery
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. -- Franz Grillparzer
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. -- Jairam Ramesh
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. -- Amit Ray
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. -- Ted Hughes
The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose. -- Steve Grand
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. -- Jacqueline Woodson
Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born. -- Nizar Qabbani
When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. -- Sigmund Freud
Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose. -- Shimon Peres
Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept -- T. E. Hulme
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. -- Sylvia Plath
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. -- Edward Thomas
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. -- Mina Loy
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. -- Nicholson Baker
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! -- Edith Schaeffer
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. -- William Beckett
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it. -- Gemma Files
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. -- Pauley Perrette
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. -- Marvin Bell
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. -- Voltaire
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. -- Robert Schumann
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. -- Walter Pater
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. -- AndreÃ¯ Makine
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. -- Ernst Haas
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. -- Pattiann Rogers
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. -- Clive James
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. -- Cate Marvin
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. -- Robert Breault
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. -- Gustave Flaubert
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -- Horace Walpole
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. -- John Darnielle
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. -- Richard M. Nixon
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. -- Edward Young
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower -- Michael Longley
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. -- Beverley Nichols
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. -- Beverley Nichols
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. -- Samuel R. Delany
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. -- Vita Sackville-West
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. -- Robert Frost
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. -- Pattiann Rogers
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. -- Tao Lin
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. -- Mary Karr
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. -- Pattiann Rogers
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. -- Richard M. Nixon
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. -- Basil Bunting
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems. -- Pattiann Rogers
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. -- Oscar Wilde
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. -- William Carlos Williams
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. -- Andre Dubus
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. -- Jeremy Bentham
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. -- Kevin Powers
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. -- Louis Kronenberger
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose. -- Theodora Goss
The trouble with us in America isn,t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy -- Louis Kronenberger
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. -- Amit Ray
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. -- Charles Kimball
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact â?¦ the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. -- William Carlos Williams
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. -- Nicholson Baker
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. -- Sybil Marshall
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome. -- Laurence Overmire
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. -- Edgar Allan Poe
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry. -- John Ciardi
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. -- Malcolm Wilson
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. -- William Shenstone
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music. -- Michael Gira
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. -- Robert Morgan
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. -- Shelby Foote

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