My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and…

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections wherever they…

— Jay-Z

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…

— Eugenio Montale