Oh Let Us Not Be Condemned For

Lyric Poetry Is, Of Course, Musical In Origin. I Do Know That What Happened To Poetry In The Twentieth Century Was That It Began To Be Written For The Page. When It's A Question Of Typography, Why Not? Poets Have Done Beautiful Things With Typography - Apollinaire's 'calligrammes,' That Sort Of Thing.

Imitation, If It Is Not Forgery, Is A Fine Thing. It Stems From A Generous Impulse, And A Realistic Sense Of What Can And Cannot Be Done.

It Normally Happens That If You Put Two Words Together, Or Two Syllables Together, One Of Them Will Attract More Weight, More Emphasis, Than The Other. In Other Words, Most So-called Spondees Can Be Read As Either Iambs Or Trochees.

Nobody Really Knows Whether They Are A Poet. I Knew I Was Interested From The Age Of 15.

A Cabaret Song Has Got To Be Written - For The Middle Voice, Ideally - Because You've Got To Hear The Wit Of The Words. And A Cabaret Song Gives The Singer Room To Act, More Even Than An Opera Singer.