I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of…

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne…

— L.M. Montgomery

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

— Sigmund Freud

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able…

— Julian Barnes

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

— William C. Bryant

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

“Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.”

— Stephen Fitzsimons

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like poetry”

— Altruistic

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson