Differences Quote by Pattiann Rogers

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

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

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 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

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so…

— Henry Purcell