Amount Quote by Scott Kahn

There’s no preparation for poetry.

— Charles Simic

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no depth to education without art.

— Amiri Baraka

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

— Kevin Powers

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

— Steve Grand

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

— Marianne Moore