What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[Seraphim]

So we pretty much have the "Poetry is whatever I want it to be" mindset? We look at we've written and say, "this is poetry." The only distinction between prose and poetry is the fact we want it to be poetry?

So if I ask a painter about the elements of composition, he dismisses the concept and says, "It's art because I say so."

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poetry for me is what the reader makes it. there will be and never can be a definitive answer to something so dynamic and creative. we are what we say we are while also being what other's say we are. poetry is shroedinger's cat being screwed by a non-existant dog.

The question was not, "What is poetry?", it was "what's the difference between prose and poetry?"

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There's prose. There's verse. And poetry is figurative language, or any cognitive music.

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