On Making Refrains

(1) phrases which can have a variety of meanings

(2) phrases which seem to mean nothing at all

(3) something said in a moment of passion

(4) a brief quotation that sticks in your mind

(5) a phrase generated by an altogether different aesthetic (e.g. a palindrome, a tongue twister, or a borrowing from another language)

(6) a phrase that was all you salvaged from a bad poem