Differences Quote by Pattiann Rogers

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

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

— Graciela Iturbide

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 not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of…

— John Wayne

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no…

— Margaret Atwood

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

— Clive James

An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture…

— William C. Brown

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

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

“Poetry is the music of the soul”

— Jana Ghossein