Difference between poetry and prose?

[rowens]

While I'm still here, I thought I'd say what I think about that Rimbaud poem. I think he was still trying to do what he'd failed to do with poetry, by writing about his failure. And it was the attitude of a poet that brought him to write his most famous poem in prose. But we all have our reasons for what we say or do. If we are poets.

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I think the "New Testament", at least the four gospels, are great poetry. And like you said, some of the Bible is history stuck in with the belief codes, art, and laws of the people. But over time, it was collaborated into some big monster of a poem. Not always very beautiful. And my personal use of the four gospels, and how I "realize" or translate them, makes them beautiful to me. Though that's not true, in my opinion, of many that use them.