“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.” ThinkingWritingMeanRealHappensTogetherBornCreativePoetExpressionOriginalsProsePoetry IsConstructiveIntervalsRebornCreative Expression Author:Herbert Read
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.” ThinkingMenWayWellsKindMeanArtMadeI CanStoriesUsePoetryVoiceFivePoetExpressionTraditionTheaterMusicalFolksSensesMediumsAll TimeAppealsNarrativeProseOne ManPeculiarGesturesVersesDo The BestPrintedTelling StoriesDynamicsFive SensesAnesthetics Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.” ThinkingNeedsWritingUseJoyPurposePerfectEmotionHeardExpressionSorrowTragedyNotesOneselfTechniqueProseHittingOne Word Author:Charlie Albright
“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.” PeopleShouldTryingDoeIdeasReasonFormStuffImaginationSpecialInformationExpressionArgumentMereProsePopeRomanticism Author:Robert Hass
“When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.” FeelsWritingI CanSelfTalkingExpressionExtremesAnalysisProseSelf ExpressionSelf Analysis Author:Jimmy Carter