Oh Let Us Not Be Condemned For

Babies Are Not Brought By Storks And Poets Are Not Produced By Workshops.

Poetry Carries Its History Within It, And It Is Oral In Origin. Its Transmission Was Oral.

Modernism In Other Arts Brought Extreme Difficulty. In Poetry, The Characteristic Difficulty Imported Under The Name Of Modernism Was Obscurity. But Obscurity Could Just As Easily Be A Quality Of Metrical As Of Free Verse.

In Rap, As In Most Popular Lyrics, A Very Low Standard Is Set For Rhyme; But This Was Not Always The Case With Popular Music.

Writing For The Page Is Only One Form Of Writing For The Eye. Wherever Solemn Inscriptions Are Put Up In Public Places, There Is A Sense That The Site And The Occasion Demand A Form Of Writing Which Goes Beyond Plain Informative Prose. Each Word Is So Valued That The Letters Forming It Are Seen As Objects Of Solemn Beauty.