Prose And Poetry Quotes

• I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Clever, Prose Poetry, Order

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.84

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• Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Language, Great Poetry

  Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

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• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Poetry Is, Delicious

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Food, Different, Drink

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• One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Differences, Important, Language

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Vocabulary, Prose Poetry

  Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)

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• Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Communication, Science, History

  "Definitions of Poetry" (1811)

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• The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fog, Wire, Literature

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.104, Grove Press

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• In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, School, Creative

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• We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

  Ernst Haas

  Writing, Needs, Photographer

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• An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Exercise, Emotional

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• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

  John Wayne

  Country, Song, Cowboy

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.33, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

  Clive James

  Writing, Starvation, Formulas

  "'I'm dying, I just look remarkably cheerful' says Clive James". "7.30" with Philip Williams, www.abc.net.au. August 19, 2015.

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• I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

  Rachel Zucker

  Way, Prose

  Source: therumpus.net

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