I don’t think good poetry can be produced in a kind of political attempt to overthrow some existing form. I think it just supersedes. People find a way in which they can say something. “I can’t say it that way, what way can I find that will do?” One didn’t really bother about the existing modes.
Paris Review – The Art of Poetry No. 1, T. S. Eliot 11:56pm on January 26, 2016