Answers Quote by Matthea Harvey

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them.…

— Matthea Harvey

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

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

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Sylvia Plath

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers