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

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.