Conveying Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Vita Sackville-West

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

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

— Mark Strand

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 is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— James Schuyler

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

— Voltaire