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John Gould Fletcher was an Imagist poet , author and authority on modern painting. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a socially prominent family. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover Fletcher went on to Harvard University from 1903 to 1907, when he dropped out shortly after his father's death. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. January 1886 – 20. May 1950
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Famous John Gould Fletcher Quotes

“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

Preface to Goblins and Pagodas, 1916

“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

Preface to Irradiations; Sand and Spray, 1915

“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

Preface to Irradiations; Sand and Spray, 1915

“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

Life is My Song, John Gould Fletcher, Autobiography, 1937

“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

Preface to Irradiations; Sand and Spray, 1915

“Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it”

John Gould Fletcher

Three Imagist Poets, The Little Review, 1916

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