“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.” ShouldFirstsFeelingsDesireUnderstandingClearGreaterOffersPerceptionValuableRhythmFasterMotiveProseVersesNew ExperiencesEvaluationOrganised Author:Yvor Winters
“The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.” FeelingsTermProgressModernPoetDisciplineEssentialsSeekingMoodRhythmVersesReservesSchemesUnfortunateAlliancesThoughts And FeelingsImpliedIrresponsibilityFree Verse Author:Herbert Read
“The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.” FirstsFeelingsDesireFeltSpaceQualityFirst TimeWesternWideCanadaFlatsHorizonPeculiarVersesVirginsPrairieWestern Canada Book:Selected Writings Source: Selected Writings