“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.”
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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
It's very hard to write humor.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
