Write What You Know. That Should Leave

Occasionally A Student Writer Comes Up With Something Really Beautiful And Moving, And You Won't Know For Years If It Was An Accident Or The First Burst Of Something Wonderful.

Once In Awhile You Have A Thought, And You Rhyme It.

I Would Talk In Iambic Pentameter If It Were Easier.

History Is Where Tensions Were.

I Think There Was A Revolution In Poetry, Associated Chiefly With Eliot And Pound; But Maybe It Is Of The Nature Of Revolutions Or Of The Nature Of History That Their Innovations Should Later Come To Look Trivial Or Indistinguishable From Technical Tricks.