Why can't prose be poetic?

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

— Lawrence Millman

“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent of the…

— Anonymous

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting…

— Mel Brooks

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

— Jerome Rothenberg

“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a…

— Pattiann Rogers

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…

— Yukio Mishima

“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at…

— Francis Ponge

“Ere morning the storm had passed; and day broke through a cloudless east. Even if the sleeve of Aoyagi hid from her lover's eyes…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

— Leigh Hunt

My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged…

— Wayne Thiebaud

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among…

— Anonymous