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Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t... EUGENIO MONTALE
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but ... EDWARD YOUNG
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. VIRGINIA WOOLF
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry FRENCH PROVERB
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. WILLIAM C. BRYANT To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking
JOHN WAIN
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry. A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose VOLTAIRE There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
ROBERT GRAVES
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident... SHELBY FOOTE
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. VOLTAIRE
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. ELIA KAZAN
Love is the poetry of the senses. HONORE DE BALZAC Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
JERRY B. JENKINS
One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of wor... EDWARD HIRSCH
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ... VICTOR HUGO
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. AMIT RAY
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. DAVID HARE The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journ...
ALAN BREWER If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
ROBERT GRAVES
Highly important in poetry is Rhythm, but the word means merely 'flow,' so that rhythm belongs to pr... ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoo... WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
The truest poetry is the most feigning;and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppos... JOHN DRINKWATER
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. AUNG SAN SUU KYI
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. SYLVIA PLATH
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose SYLVIA PLATH Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in pros...
BEVERLEY NICHOLS
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. EDGAR ALLAN POE Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty in words.
LEAH SLONE
Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meani... BRYANT MCGILL
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one... RICHARD M. NIXON Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written...
BEVERLY NICHOLS
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. SYLVIA PLATH 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. MARIO CUOMO Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in... WALLACE STEVENS
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discrimin... WALTER PATER
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. KAPIL SIBAL
See the world for what it is.BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. PLUTARCH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har...
HORACE WALPOLE
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experi... TRACY K. SMITH
There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex... STEPHANE MALLARME
There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep... STéPHANE MALLARMé
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. PAUL VALERY
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well PAUL VALERY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha... JEANETTE WINTERSON
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. ROBERT GILFILLAN I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no... LOUIS MACNEICE
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. H. L. MENCKEN
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
What can be explained is not poetry. W.B. YEATS
Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting. SIMONIDES
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. SIMONIDES
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech SIMONIDES If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, &#...
A. R. AMMONS The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a...
A. R. AMMONS Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... EDWARD HIRSCH
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best ... MAYA ANGELOU
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... JAMES FENTON
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest... RACHEL CARSON
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that ... SARAH KAY Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close t...
ETEL ADNAN
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON
