'Essay on Imagism' (appended to 'Mirrors of Illusion', Sisley, London) 1909
“I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it’s held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It’s like 4:4 you know.”
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
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American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940Related quotes

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