Book Quote by Mark Strand

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

— Pattiann Rogers

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

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

— Walter Pater

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

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Mary Oliver

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

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

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

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

— Voltaire

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan