Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming. - Robert Pinsky

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art.

That physical tingle, that powerful audible experience(not with poets projecting their work to an audience) but more intimate, less planned than that.

I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it’s held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It’s like 4:4 you know.