Poetry Quote by Molly Peacock

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

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

— Nizar Qabbani

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed…

— John Drinkwater

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

— Anonymous

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass