Poetry Quote by Daniel Klawitter

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

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

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

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

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

— 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

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

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

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

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