“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.”
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
