Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it