Acting Quote by Elia Kazan

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice,…

— David Hume

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

— Alfred Austin

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— sir kristian goldmund aumann