Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. Peter Meinke More Quotes by Peter Meinke More Quotes From Peter Meinke The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last. Peter Meinke treats lasts may If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say. Peter Meinke chance writing long I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young. Peter Meinke stars moon song