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• Poets go from bard to verse.
• Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.
• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Of English Verse...
• RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad.
  The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull....
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it.
  Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. -- Ezra Pound...