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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. the one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
-Joyce Carol Oates
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Prose-it Might Be Speculated-is Discourse; Poetry Ellipsis.

Joyce Carol Oates
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. the one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
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