Inspiration Quote by T. E. Hulme

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

— T. E. Hulme

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift that allows…

— Ruben

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass