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John Livingston Lowes
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“There is one way, and only one, of correctly reading a Latin hexameter. There may be three or four ways of reading an English blank verse line. I venture to say that no two mortals ever read aloud any given long passage of verse with precisely the same rhythms.”
John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conventions and Revolt in Poetry (1919)
“Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which ?”
John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nation (February 1916)