Poems and sex, alike,
we commit for love, or pay –
although neither is something
anyone wants to do all day.
But, if you ration them, say,
thrice weekly for a year,
you may lay the foundation
of an amenable career.
Dave Read
Ars poetica
The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.