It is time to create something new. It is time to strip poetry of meaningless tatters of form, and to clothe her in new, suitable garments.
— John Gould Fletcher
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Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.
It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.
Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it
To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables.
I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter,a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me and responds to my mood.
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