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I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

— Junot Diaz

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

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

— Mary Oliver

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

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

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath