Discourse Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something…

— Tracy K. Smith

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— Austin O'Malley

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry…

— Rajneesh