Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
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.
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.