The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Love is the garment of knowledge.
Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.