Face to face Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

— Vita Sackville-West

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of…

— Walter Savage Landor

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

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

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire