Poetry Quote by Annie Dillard

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry,…

— Shelby Foote

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

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

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful…

— Kenneth Koch

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

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

“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen,…

— Melody Lee

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