Different Quote by Billy Collins

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think…

— Matthea Harvey

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

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

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

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley