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“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

German Chronicle, Poetry & Drama, vol. II, 1914

“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

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

“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

Contemporary French Poetry, The Poetry Review, 1914

“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

German Chronicle, Poetry & Drama, vol. II, 1914

“My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.”

F. S. Flint

Preface , 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London 1920
Otherworld Cadences (1920)

“Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.”

F. S. Flint

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

F. S. Flint Quotes

“The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.”

F. S. Flint

Contemporary French Poetry, The Poetry Review, 1914

“I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.”

F. S. Flint

Preface, In the Net of Stars, 1909
Other Quotes

“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

Verse Chronicle, article, The Criterion, 1932
Other Quotes

“The natural cadence of our emotions are the driving force behind our poetic expressions.”

F. S. Flint

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

“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

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

“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

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

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