I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. — Quoted

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“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”

Alfred Edward Housman · Poetry

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James Schuyler

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

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Marguerite Young

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

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Wallace Stevens

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

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Michael Tippett

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.

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