Poetry Quote by Rachel Zucker

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

— Jeffery Deaver

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

— Victoria Chang

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of…

— Alex Lemon

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch