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No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm.

— Robert Pinsky

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Every word is an abstraction or category, not a particular.

Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming.

A poem is free, and it shows its freedom by establishing its own principles.

The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

There are no rules but uniformity can make it seem as though there are rules.

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