Adamant Quote by Samuel Johnson

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

“The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.”

— Ralph Fletcher

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A…

— Molly Peacock

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

— LaTanya Richardson

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

— Basil Bunting

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin