Inspirational Quote by Marvin Bell

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 exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

— Basil Bunting

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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— 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

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Walter Pater

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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 is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers