“The rhythm of a poem ceases the moment the feeling loses its intensity.”
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
“A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem”
The Anatomy of Poetry, Marjoie Boulton, Routledge & Kegan, London 1953.
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Context: For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The Philosophy of Composition
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
Walter Russell (1871–1963) American philosopher
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