Humour Quote by Simon Armitage

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”

— bell hooks