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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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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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