I've come to see prose as a panorama, a picture of everything around you in all its detail, where poetry is a pinhole camera, one small thing enlarged until it fills the world.

This perfectly reflects my own beliefs (and uses a perfectly beautiful metaphor).

Before my college creative writing class I detested writing ordered poetry and stuck mostly to blank verse. Though I occasionally used rhyme schemes, I generally avoided meter and syllabic rules. One of the things my college poetry teacher made us get comfortable with was meter. The Poem's Heartbeat by Alfred Corn was required reading. Once I got comfortable with considering meter and rhythm structures I feel in love with them. There is something about putting things into a certain order which is challenging and fun, like putting together a puzzle.