Poetry Quote by Nicholson Baker

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

— Carl Sandburg

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…

— Alice Oswald

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

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore