Prose Poetry Quotes
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Prose Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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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
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
— Peter Davison
Solace of Silencesurreal 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
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
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
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
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
Before you came the world was prose.
Now poetry is born. — Nizar Qabbani
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why can't prose be poetic?
— Kevin Focke
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson
( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
— Andrei Makine
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
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
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
