Clive James
Writer
"Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation."
Prose And Poetry quotes
Prose And Poetry
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"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."
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