It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Rhythm is form cut into time.
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
What counts is the cultural level
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.