What Makes The Engine Go?

The First Task Of The Poet Is To Create The Person Who Will Write The Poems.

Rhythm To Me Is Essentially What Hopkins Called The Taste Of Self. I Taste Myself As Rhythm.

...few Young Poets [are] Testing Their Poems Against The Ear. They're Writing For The Page, And The Page, Let Me Tell You, Is A Cold Bed.

The Ear Writes My Poems, Not The Mind.

How Shall The Heart Be Reconciled / To Its Feast Of Losses?