A number of abstract ideas, of which we are as a matter of fact unconscious. We do not see them, but we see other things through them. - T. E. Hulme

My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case.

If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.