“People were never my need: perspectives were, hearts were, souls were, people beyond people were.” — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Maybe they will only find one another by being somewhere they have never been and maybe none of this has a thing… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear… “It’s best to watch out for… — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
“With the rain falling surgically against the roof, I ate a dish of ice cream that looked like Kafka's hat. It was… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It… — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
“About sexuality of English mice. A warm perfume is growing little by little in the room. An orchard scent, a caramelized sugar… — Philippe DELERM Copy Share Image
“Swirled tight, trussed, manic, most trusted. You love hills, swells, waves of sand, waves of water. You love traffic on bridges that… — Carol Guess Copy Share Image
“YEN What happens if you take a cup? Put it to your lips. A cup of desire. Of dazzling colour. Of intoxicating… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing nothing nothing. You scorched suntanned. Old too quickly. Acres of suburbs… — Ania Walwicz Copy Share Image
“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
