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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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. – Vladimir Nabokov

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