Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous…

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.

There is nothing to do but keep on.

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

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

It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind.