F. S. Flint: Poetry

F. S. Flint was English Imagist poet. Explore interesting quotes on poetry.
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“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

“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)

Art

“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)

History