Argument Quote by David Biespiel

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

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people.…

— Johnny Flynn

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

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is…

— Hortense Calisher

Why should poetry have to make sense?

— Charlie Chaplin

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

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

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

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe