Poetry Quote by Annie Dillard

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”

— Nataly Kelly

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt…

— William Shenstone

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

— Plato

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

— Tom Waits

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

“Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.”

— Nick Hornby

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

— Katherine Anne Porter