Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.