Contemporary Quote by Alice Fulton

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to…

— Henry David Thoreau

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

— Denis Johnson

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since…

— Matthea Harvey

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.…

— Gina Berriault

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics…

— Martha Ronk

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning