Clarity Quote by Pattiann Rogers

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

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

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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