The (no) Rules

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Considering my personal rules for Poem-a-Day writing prompted me to think about my more general guiding principles for writing. I didn’t get very far.

• Fail. Fail again. Fail better. –Samuel Beckett
• It’s a poem if I say it is.
• The thing’s hollow. It goes on forever. My god, it’s full of stars. –Dave Bowman
• Listen, listen, listen.
• The form is always the measure of the obsession. –Alberto Giacometti

I’ll have to figure it out as I go along. Come to think of it, that’s a pretty sound rule too.