Ted,
One more thought from Mark Twain concerning the difference between poetry and prose:
"What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ...Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash." - Letter to W. D. Howells, 2/25/1906
Carl
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