"I would rather write poems than prose,..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
More by Mary Oliver
“And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.”
“I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.”
“The language of the poem is the language of particulars.”
More on Writing
“Writer speaks a stench.”
“The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.”
“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.”