“Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

Now the small buds are pronged
to the boughs like candle-butts.
Steaming April! The adolescent park 

Every Sunday they left a circus of dust behind them, 
as they poured out on the turnpike in stately, overcowded 
                                                                                           carriages,

What follows are the authors’ discussions on the first stirrings, the germination of a poem, or a work of fiction. Any number of headings would be appropriate: Beginnings, The Starting Point, etc. Inspiration would be as good as any.