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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.

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.

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.

Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it

The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression

Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.