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Quotes from Form in Modern Poetry — Herbert Read

1893–1968 England

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Words,their sound and even their very appearance, are, of course,everything to the poet.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

The distinction between a major and minor poet is the ability to write a long poem successfully.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

The process of poetry consists firstly in maintaining this vision in its integrity and secondly in expressing this vision in words.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

All art originates in an act of intuition or vision.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

From the poet's viewpoint a lyric is a poem which embodies a single or simple emotional attitude that expresses directly an uninterrupted mood or inspiration.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

Poetry is properly speaking a transcendental quality, a sudden transformation in which words assume a particular influence.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

Shakespeare shows us tradition is a meaningless abstraction for the poet itself and I give thanks for for this poet reaching after nothing more distant than the impassioned accents of its own voice as it issued from an intuitive mind.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

A short poem is often called a lyric, which originally meant a poem short enough to be set to music and sung for a moment's pleasure.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

The difference between poetry and prose is not one of surface qualities, or form, or mode of expression, but of essence. The state of mind in which poetry originates must either seek poetic expression or it must not be expressed.

Form in Modern Poetry (1932)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Herbert Read (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.