Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

— Mary Karr

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

— Pattiann Rogers

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

— Jean Cocteau

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of darkness, she…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

“And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.”

— Danabelle Gutierrez

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

— Virginia Woolf

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and…

— Mikl Paul

“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What it’s like…

— Charlotte Eriksson

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,…

— Paul Rand