There's a place for both the long and the short, and sometimes a line or two can speak volumes in a way that is not at all fragmentary. "Paradise Lost" may be Milton's masterpiece, but he's reached a lot more people with "On His Blindness."
My two favorite poems by W.S. Merwin are his longest, "The Folding Cliffs" (a book-length epic set in 19th century Kauai) and his shortest, "Elegy" (which reads in its entirety: "Who would I show it to").
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