Floating around on my desk for days has been this quote from Robert Duncan via Ron Silliman:
Poetry fails when it seeks only to include the rational.
There is also another side to this: I really respect poems that cannot be paraphrased in prose. Ezra Pound said something along the lines of, 'If it can be expressed in good prose, then write it in prose'. It is a bit stringent, but a height to aim at.
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