As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.
Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.