There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.