Flying Quote by Galway Kinnell

“he was walking poetry, a walking poem”

— Bemy Wells

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical…

— Audre Lorde

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

— Helen Vendler

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that…

— Matthew Zapruder

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

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

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

— Pattiann Rogers