All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?
For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.
