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If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

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 would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.