Difficult Quote by Walter Pater

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

— Mary Oliver

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Pattiann Rogers

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

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

— Vita Sackville-West

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than…

— Nick Laird

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

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

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson