Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.