The point is that any piece of Impressionism, whether it be prose, verse or painting, or sculpture, is the record of the impression. - F. S. Flint

My own unryhmed cadences , and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.

Like most inventors, Pound did not create out of the void. The "Image" he took from T.E. Hulme's table talk. The "ism" was suggested to him by the notes on contemporary French poetry which I wrote for Harold Monro's Poetry Review. The collacation of 'image' and 'ism' came to Pound after I had told him about Divoire's essays on stratégie littéraire.

There is a natural physiological tendency to pronounce in one breath successive groups of rhythmic feet, and the rhythmic content in the average length of breathing can only be called a verse.