Of course, as Winston Churchill famously said, you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.
As they say, you get to campaign in poetry but you must govern in prose.
In poetry, finalists include Emmanuel Hocquard's (oh-KARDZ') "The Invention of Glass, " translated from French by Cole Swenson and Rod Smith.
You campaign in poetry and govern in prose, as Churchill said, and Obama is a classic example of the problem.
He admitted as much to his party last September, when he cited the dictum of Mario Cuomo that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.
Dunn, who was awarded Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Different Hours in 2001, has read his poetry at The Library of Congress, and at many universities and colleges throughout the country.
" For the Jameses (William, Henry, Alice and their father, Henry Sr.) or the Woolfs (Leonard, Virginia and endless relations), attacks on "tone in poetry and prose could be used as a way to mask other attacks.
"I was thinking, 'This has never happened before in poetry, and I'm sure it will never happen again, '" says John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, the author of six volumes of poetry and a former investment banker.
There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".
The judging panel includes Paul Farley, who won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1998 and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2002.
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In recent years, they have found ways to encode trademarks in cells and poetry in bacteria, as well as store snippets of music in the genetic code of micro-organisms.
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He learned to speak Welsh as an adult and wrote prose in Welsh but his poetry in English.
In the poetry category, John Burnside's win comes after a prolonged period in which poets Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney dominated the Whitbread awards.
Competing in the poetry category are Leonita Flynn, John Fuller, Matthew Hollis and Michael Symmons Roberts.
But in the world I live in there is less poetry than in a Japanese fisherman's hut.
Mr Milosz, who participates in his poetry's translation, had long thought it untranslatable.
Earlier this week, a controversy erupted over the inclusion of rapper Common in a poetry event at the White House.
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He understands the fragility of the Romantic mind, and finds tiny clues in the poetry or the prose that would elude a less sensitive observer.
The former Iraqi leader showed a philosophical side in his poetry.
Poems read in The Poetry House will range from Anglo-Saxon and early Scottish verse to freshly-penned lines from students taking the university's degree in creative writing.
But he has never addressed the atrocities of the Biafran war, in which he was caught up with his young family - except occasionally in his poetry.
People in the slate districts of north Wales treasure the memory of the cultured quarrymen whose breaks from their labours in their hillside 'caban' would be filled with literary discussions and exercises in Welsh poetry.
In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
"Distillation fulfilled a poetic side in me, I very much felt there was poetry in the chemistry between the fire and the plant to produce essential oils, " he told CNN.
In the two-room world headquarters of the Finno-Ugric movement in Tallinn, Mr Heinapuu proudly shows a shelf of newly published poetry in Mari and other languages.
Rich in prose and poetry families and communities would gather around the storyteller to regale in fantastic tales.
"She's committed to becoming an advocate for the written word and poetry in particular, " says Gretchen Young, who edited all of Kennedy's poetry books at Hyperion, working with the author to cull down huge numbers of beloved poems.
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