Differences Quote by Brian Evenson

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

— Joy Kogawa

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions…

— John Dryden

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end…

— Achy Obejas

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any…

— Robert Hass

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a…

— Edmund White

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky