not the breaking point

For all its effects, the only thing important about the linebreak is that it shouldn’t be where the reader stops reading.

obsessed or possessed

If only this poem would let me alone so that I might live.

ends beyond effects

The artist conceals the ordeal of labor in order to manifest the work. Created in time, and as well received in time, works of art have absolute beginnings in intention and absolute ends beyond their effects.

—Susan Stewart, “Ovid’s Contests of Making,” The Poet’s Freedom (U. of Chicago Press, 2011)