Bent Quote by J. Patrick Lewis

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

— Mina Loy

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

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

— William Beckett

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver