Books Quote by Kevin Powers

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than…

— Nick Laird

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you…

— Abbas Kiarostami

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing…

— Margaret Atwood

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

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

— Pattiann Rogers