Poetry is a doubleedged ordsprog

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

John Scott (1751-)

John Scott

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 (1775-1864)

Walter Savage Landor

It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose?

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Sir David Hare (1947-)

David Hare

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Thomas Gray

I saw a way that I could write fiction about my own experience and things that I've done and imagined. I was very interested to be writing these stories because I found that, like a certain kind of magnet, writing prose picked up details that my poetry had never been able to pick up.

No one can give another human being the soul of an artist, the sensibility of a writer, or the passion to put words on paper that is the gift and the curse of those who fashion poetry and prose. But it's ludicrous to suggest and short- sighted to believe that the fundamentals of fiction can't be taught.

Elizabeth George

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. . . says heaven and earth in one word. . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time.

Christopher Fry (1907-2005)

Christopher Fry

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring.

Mario Cuomo (1932-)

Mario Cuomo

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