Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
Thom Gunn
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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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