There are no rules. However, principles may be discerned in actual practice; for example, in the way people actually speak, or in the lines the poets have written. (Robert Pinsky)

There are no rules. However, principles may be discerned in actual practice; for example, in the way people actually speak, or in the lines the poets have written.

Robert Pinsky

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