Day Quote by Mary Oliver

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

— Walter Pater

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Sandra Cisneros

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

— Mark Strand

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

— Ron Padgett