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

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

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

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

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

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.