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

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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