Feelings Quote by Jack Driscoll

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close…

— Pattiann Rogers

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry…

— Ivan M. Granger

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt…

— William Shenstone

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

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

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 prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver