11-22-2012, 02:03 AM
Hi...I think I echo your views here.
I liked this quote i came accross:
"When you write in prose, you cook the rice. When you write poetry, you turn rice into rice wine. Cooked rice doesn't change its shape, but rice wine changes both in quality and shape. Cooked rice makes one full so one can live out one's life span . . . wine, on the other hand, makes one drunk, makes the sad happy, and the happy sad. Its effect is sublimely beyond explanation." - Wu Qiao .
For me poetry is a relativly new venture that has been birthed out of my love of writing prose. (which i've been doing for several years now). I have always thought of poetry as like concentrated prose; in the way that a fruit juice can have 50% or more of the water taken out of it. You can take up to 50% (+) of the filler words out of prose and what you have left still carries the same message...it just packs more of a punch.
That my take on it.
I liked this quote i came accross:
"When you write in prose, you cook the rice. When you write poetry, you turn rice into rice wine. Cooked rice doesn't change its shape, but rice wine changes both in quality and shape. Cooked rice makes one full so one can live out one's life span . . . wine, on the other hand, makes one drunk, makes the sad happy, and the happy sad. Its effect is sublimely beyond explanation." - Wu Qiao .
For me poetry is a relativly new venture that has been birthed out of my love of writing prose. (which i've been doing for several years now). I have always thought of poetry as like concentrated prose; in the way that a fruit juice can have 50% or more of the water taken out of it. You can take up to 50% (+) of the filler words out of prose and what you have left still carries the same message...it just packs more of a punch.
That my take on it.