Prose And Poetry Quotes
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As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
— Samuel R. Delany
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
She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.
— Colleen Hoover
Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair.
— Marguerite De Angeli
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 like the way the prose and poetry interact.
— Rachel Zucker
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'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.
— Charlotte Eriksson
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
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
— Clive James
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
campaign in poetry and govern in prose" - and
— David Axelrod
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
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
— Ernst Haas
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
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
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
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
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
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
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
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
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
