Including Quote by Shelby Foote

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get…

— Italo Calvino

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas…

— Sherman Alexie

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and…

— Kacey Musgraves

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett