When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.