John Gould Fletcher Quotes

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It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.

John Gould Fletcher
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.

John Gould Fletcher
Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it

John Gould Fletcher
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.

John Gould Fletcher
Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.

John Gould Fletcher
Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

John Gould Fletcher
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.

John Gould Fletcher
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

John Gould Fletcher