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F. S. Flint
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“There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The history of English poetry in verse in the story of the exhaustion of the effects to be obtained from rhyme and meter of the exploitation of a mine in which the most lodes have at last given out.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The natural cadence of our emotions are the driving force behind our poetic expressions.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My three propositions to poetry are:”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own unryhmed cadences , and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface , 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London 1920
“I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface, In the Net of Stars, 1909
“Like most inventors, Pound did not create out of the void. The "Image" he took from T.E. Hulme's table talk. The "ism" was suggested to him by the notes on contemporary French poetry which I wrote for Harold Monro's Poetry Review. The collacation of 'image' and 'ism' came to Pound after I had told him about Divoire's essays on stratégie littéraire.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Verse Chronicle, article, The Criterion, 1932
“The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a natural physiological tendency to pronounce in one breath successive groups of rhythmic feet, and the rhythmic content in the average length of breathing can only be called a verse.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The point is that any piece of Impressionism, whether it be prose, verse or painting, or sculpture, is the record of the impression.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every speech is at once a language serving the purposes of will, expressing intimate desires and commands, and at same time expressing thoughts by a sequence of concepts.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source