Poetry Quote by Russell Edson

All poetry is experimental poetry.

— Wallace Stevens

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

— Seamus Heaney

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

— Nicholas Royle

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Vanessa M. Chattman

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope…

— Anonymous

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

— Pattiann Rogers

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

“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