However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.