F.S. Flint Quotes
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I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
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Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
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My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.
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The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.
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Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.
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Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.
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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.
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Artistic form of the future is prose with cadence for lyrical expression.