Cadence Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal