Enormous Quote by Michael Longley

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

— Kevin Powers

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

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

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of…

— Bryant McGill

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range”

— Mpho Leteng

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

— Genevieve Taggard

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins