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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

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest. — Mikl Paul

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

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose. — Shimon Peres

Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse

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

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose. — Steve Grand

Calico Kitty

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

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

Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ... — Muse

we talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that. — AVA.

Ancient days of sorrow
ancient days of pain
-
heartaches of the past
slowly began to wane ...
(from gleaning granules) — 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

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

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

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

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. — Shannon L. Alder

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

you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being
you. — AVA.

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

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

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

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

I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you. — Mikl Paul

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater

I ache not from need -
but from my heart's gluttony of you. — Muse

Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born. — Nizar Qabbani

i wanted to destroy you.

you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me. — AVA.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf

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

i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart. — AVA.

Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada. — Jon Davis

Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture. — Bob Dylan

Outside our small safe place flies mystery. — A.S. Byatt

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. — Mario Cuomo

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

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

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

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

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. — Paul Valery

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

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

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.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam. — Jay Woodman

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

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

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

remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love. — AVA.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. — Jairam Ramesh

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

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Prose talks and poetry sings. — Franz Grillparzer

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.

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

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.

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose. — David Joseph Cribbin

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

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. — William C. Bryant

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

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr

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

Why can't prose be poetic? — Kevin Focke

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look. — AVA.

..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.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

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.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes

show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin. — AVA.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips. — 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

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept — T. E. Hulme

i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before. — AVA.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West

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

A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen... — Muse

The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul. — Ondjaki

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

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

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