Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

— George W. Romney

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

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

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

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

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

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

— David Hare

“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