Certain Quote by Walter Savage Landor

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

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

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Mark Strand

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

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

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

— Sylvia Plath