Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is…

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

— Marie Corelli

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears…

— Story Musgrave

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Pattiann Rogers

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis