Quotes by Prose And Poetry Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement. Christopher Fry prose-and-poetry language men Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. Clive James starvation prose-and-poetry writing We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. Ernst Haas prose-and-poetry writing needs Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. Franz Grillparzer prose-and-poetry different food 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 prose-and-poetry writing school One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. Pattiann Rogers prose-and-poetry differences important I like the way the prose and poetry interact. Rachel Zucker prose-and-poetry prose way 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 prose-and-poetry prose-poetry clever 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 prose-and-poetry communication science 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 prose-and-poetry wire fog Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf prose-and-poetry poetry-is writing
