Poetry Quote by Basil Bunting

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…

— Eugenio Montale

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry…

— Rajneesh

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but…

— Victor Hugo

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but…

— Giles Andreae

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham