Differences Quote by Augustus William Hare

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

— Jean-Claude Ellena

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

— Kathleen Rooney

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

— Osbert Sitwell

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

— Cate Marvin

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng