It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communica — T. E. Hulme

"My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration."

"Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling."

"The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities."

"There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case."

"A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters."

"All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted."