Monday, April 5, 2010


The tyranny of rhyme


My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.

1 comment:

  1. Reminds me of this quote

    "Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini" - Paul Muldoon

    which came through my Twitter feed this morning :)!

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