To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem..
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse..
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus..
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Prose is walking; poetry is flying.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it..
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts..
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes..
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom..
Details are the Life of Prose..
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen..
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible..
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it..
I'm a better polemicist in prose..