I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

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.

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.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.