Fiction Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

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

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

— Norman MacCaig

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

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

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney