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What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

Chinua Achebe
Children, Book, Prose Poetry
Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.44, Penguin

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writing, Vocabulary, Prose Poetry
Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave
Writing, Prose Poetry, Different
"NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander
Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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

William Beckett
Prose Poetry, Mind, Inspired

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

William Beckett
Prose Poetry, Melody, Poetry Is

French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

Peter Medawar
Philosophy, Prose Poetry, Use
Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Maya Angelou
Art, Writing, Prose Poetry

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