Bars Quote by Jack Spicer

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.”

— Pierre Albert-Birot

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne

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

— Voltaire

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering…

— Henry Green

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that…

— Socrates

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and…

— Anne Waldman

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald