"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince." ― H. L. Mencken Topic(s): Poetry Tags: enough, poetry More From H. L. Mencken "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another." "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." More In Poetry "The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who’s telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person’s own biases."― Lance Ito "I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do."― J. Milton Hayes "An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."― John Barton