Quote#Books & Reading
There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models…
Quote byT. E. Hulme · 1883–1917
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lecture on Modern Poetry (1914).
English (original)
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.
— T. E. Hulme
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