Inadequate Quote by Vita Sackville-West

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

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

— James Schuyler

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

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

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers