Seidel on form

"The minute you use rhyme, or regular meter, you are doing things to the subject matter. Just as you might very much, even desperately, want to get into your poem the astonishingly gray eyes of the person you're writing about but find the poem doesn't really want those gray eyes, or maybe doesn't want eyes at all. That sort of thing. The poem is making its demands of you as you make yours of it. All the while in this process something is being made, a thing is being made." (Frederick Seidel, Paris Review 190, page 155.)