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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany

Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant. — Mikl Paul

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.
from the prose poem INNOCENCE — Jay Woodman

He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it. — Mikl Paul

She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page. — Colleen Hoover

you need to be careful with me.

i fall in love
and i fall in love forever. — AVA.

Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair. — Marguerite De Angeli

Calico Kitty

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

Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream made of pure poetry from divine source. AA — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone. — AVA.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins

and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone. — AVA.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact. — Rachel Zucker

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers

The Inner Self
... What makes us who we are
should be glorified
personified
and sung unto the stars! — Muse

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

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full. — AVA.

I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time. — Charlotte Eriksson

Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale) — Muse

It's miraculous how you are prose by day, and poetry by night. — Madhu

Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ... — Muse

Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ... — Muse

I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. — Charlotte Eriksson

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me? — Charlotte Eriksson

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James

you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be. — AVA.

i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun. — AVA.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love. — AVA.

Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ... — Muse

Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. — Beverley Nichols

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry. — Christopher Hitchens

And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours. — Shannon L. Alder

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

Bad bananas are like push-up bras
a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain. — Kate Lebo

campaign in poetry and govern in prose" - and — David Axelrod

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more. — AVA.

Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination. — Stephen Fitzsimons

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. — Franz Grillparzer

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. — Moonshine Noire

I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose. — Roberta Pearce

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost

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 a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole

some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling. — AVA.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas

Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are. — AVA.

We will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph. — Lang Leav

3 P's are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry. — Vinita Kinra

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay. — AVA.

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other. — Danabelle Gutierrez

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies. — Rainer Maria Rilke

( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andrei Makine

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. — Simon Armitage

Prose talks and poetry sings. — Franz Grillparzer

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

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love. — AVA.

One day I will laugh and no loneliness will fall out. — Te' V. Smith

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass

i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.

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

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement. — Christopher Fry

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you. — AVA.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan

The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dark and pregnant clouds gave birth and fist-sized stones of hail hammered the earth. — Michael R. Fletcher

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett