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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.