Top 11 Prose And Poetry Quotes

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

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

Christopher Fry

Men, Prose And Poetry, Language

Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

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

Virginia Woolf

Writing, Prose And Poetry, Poetry Is

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Clive James

Writing, Prose And Poetry, Starvation

"'I'm dying, I just look remarkably cheerful' says Clive James". "7.30" with Philip Williams, www.abc.net.au. August 19, 2015.

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Prose And Poetry, Fog, Wire

Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.104, Grove Press

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Communication, Science, Prose And Poetry

"Definitions of Poetry" (1811)

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

Clever, Prose And Poetry, Prose Poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.84

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

Pattiann Rogers

Prose And Poetry, Differences, Important

"A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

Rachel Zucker

Prose And Poetry, Way, Prose

Source: therumpus.net

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

Margaret Atwood

Writing, School, Prose And Poetry