Poetry Quote by Kevin Focke Download Open image ““Why can't prose be poetic?”” — Kevin Focke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Prose poetry Writing
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.” — Horace Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Maybe some things are just meant to be cherished the way they are: Unfinished, left unturned, wondering what could be and could have been.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
“Just because something is normal in a culture does not make it ethically sound. Normal merely means there is a social consensus that it… — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of art is the misalignment of merit and the perception thereof. A hype is a classic example of positive (from the creator’s… — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
“A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
“Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
