Ifs Quote by Robert Breault

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of…

— Walter Savage Landor

I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it…

— Elaine Equi

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

— Helen Vendler

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

— John Crowe Ransom

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never…

— David Whyte

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker