Ability Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

— Basil Bunting

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

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

— William Beckett

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry…

— Rajneesh

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…

— Eugenio Montale