I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely…

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

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

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

— Pattiann Rogers

“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