"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
― H. L. Mencken
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Poetry
― H. L. Mencken
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More In Poetry
- "Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays."― Patrick White
- "Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is."― James Branch Cabell
- "There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."― Eugenio Montale