"[T]he chief sources of variation in metrical composition reside within the norm itself. Indeed, modulation is possible only so long as the meter is respected. Only by adhering to the basic structure of the line can the poet achieve, within it, arresting or pleasing rhythms that point meaning and tone."
- T. Steele, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999) 39.
It’s within boundaries that we are most beautiful, creative and fulfilled, and, in a sense, most free. This is true in poetry, dance, music – and life. We have been made to live life under God and within his boundaries, and that is a beautiful way to live. It’s when we think that we will be happier free of his boundaries that we lose these things. It’s a discordant, degrading sort of freedom.
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