Art Quote by Matthea Harvey

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton

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

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

— Joy Kogawa

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double…

— Matthea Harvey

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides…

— Brian Evenson

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

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

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson