Poetry Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Father continues to make the vulgar error,” she said, “that to a woman, love is her whole existence.”

— Paullina Simons

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of…

— Garth Greenwell

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other…

— David Bowie

I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but…

— Lauren Mayberry

As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the timeline and…

— Torrey Peters

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way…

— Billy Collins

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged to do…

— Paul Lisicky

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry