Century Quote by David Hare

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of the best-known…

— Ronald Carter

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

— Pattiann Rogers

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting…

— Robert Hass

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 the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Pattiann Rogers

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