If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.