In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. - William Carlos Williams

Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us. It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another, any of us, even the most valuable, that makes our lives like those of a litter of kittens in a wood-pile.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?