Quotes About Metres

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of the Greek poets and dramatists, and the theories of the Graeco-Roman grammarians, concocted to explain their metres.

For Browning, Mr. Pound has always professed strong admiration (see Mesmerism in Personae); there are traces of him in Cino and Famam Librosque Cano, in the same volume. But it is more profitable to comment upon the variety of metres and the original use of language. Ezra Pound