"A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances." ― Douglas Dunn Topic(s): Poetry More In Poetry "Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."― Walter Savage Landor "A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."― E. M. Forster "I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."― Diane Wakoski