Latin Quote by Blaise Cendrars

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'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

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

— Vita Sackville-West

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

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

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

— Walter Pater