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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

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

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

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.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.