Poetry Quote by James Schuyler

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

— Voltaire

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

— Vita Sackville-West

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— William Beckett

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

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 must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Kevin Powers