I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Most things may never happen: this one will.
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.