I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.