"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose"

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry"

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind"

"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great"

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven"

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

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

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose"

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"