Ultimately poetic thought is interpretive. - John Hollander

Inspiration comes within a framework. A poem that gets out of hand is not a poem.

Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful , delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry.

For the poet, the biblical sense of 'know' is as much part of nature as the heat of fire, and in the cognative sense as much a given phenomonen as the brightness itself.