Deadly Quote by Russell Edson

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.”

— Paul Valéry

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald