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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.