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Prose Poetry Quotes

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. Story Musgrave
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal. Chinua Achebe
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Walter Savage Landor
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. Michael Tippett
Paul Valery quote: "Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking."
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. Paul Valery
Nicholson Baker quote: "Poetry is prose in slow motion."
Poetry is prose in slow motion. Nicholson Baker
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in..."
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Galway Kinnell quote: "Prose is walking; poetry is flying"
Prose is walking; poetry is flying Galway Kinnell
H. L. Mencken quote: "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also..."
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. H. L. Mencken
Franz Grillparzer quote: "Prose talks and poetry sings."
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Christopher Fry
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Jack Prelutsky
Horace Walpole quote: "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious..."
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. Eugenio Montale
(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now it lights me as I walk to think I have two acts of King John tonight, and shall next read Richard the Second. It is poetry that I want now -- long poems. I want the concentration and the romance, and the words all glued together, fused, glowing; having no time to waste any more on prose. When I was twenty I liked Eighteenth Century prose; now it's poetry I want, so I... Virginia Woolf

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