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As a prose writer, i work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
-Samuel R. Delany
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As A Prose Writer, I Work With

Samuel R. Delany
As a prose writer, i work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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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.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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In general, i would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. in the old days, i read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. you can’t pick up a page. all the words slide off.
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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.
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There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. words are words. the only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. they've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. it's all the same. lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. they are interchangeable to me.
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