The reason....

[Paul Whybrow]

'The reason we read poetry is that it has the ability to penetrate both solar plexus and between the eyes, simultaneously, in a way that prose doesn't.'

Owen Sheers

 

[Hannah F]

I disagree. I have read prose that does that too.

 

[MattScho]

Yeah, it's not about the type of writing, it's about the quality and our tastes. We can read all the crap poetry ever written and not feel moved much, at all, except perhaps in our bowels.

 

[Pamela Jo]

I'm afraid I must side with the violet eyed Adonis.

“Music resembles poetry in each are numerous
graces which no methods teach and which a
master hand alone can reach”
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)