Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
The New Republic (4 April 1985)
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“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”
David Hare (1947) British writer
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
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Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle (2012) https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sBsG9V1oVdMC,
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
John Wain (1925–1994) British writer
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
Munir Butt (1940–2015) British diplomat
Speaking about new U.S. President Barack Obama
Source: Diplomat Magazine profile, 2009.
“Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Letter to Harriet Monroe (January 1915)
“By definition, if prose is a river, poetry is a fountain.”
Michael Longley (1939) poet
'Poetry Ireland Review' Summer 1999