F.S. Flint Quotes

United Kingdom, Poet
December 19, 1885 – February, 28, 1960.

Frank Stuart Flint was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country".

Also known as Translator

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

F.S. Flint
- Heart
- May
- Hope
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

F.S. Flint
- Tree
- Flower
- White

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

F.S. Flint
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.

F.S. Flint
- Emotional
- Prose
- Lyrical
Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.

F.S. Flint
- Poetry
- Rhyme
- Metre
The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.

F.S. Flint
- Rhythm
- Poem
- Harmonious
Poetry is a quality of the artistic expression independent of form.

F.S. Flint
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.

F.S. Flint

There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.

F.S. Flint
- Art
- Poetry
- Rhyme
Artistic form of the future is prose with cadence for lyrical expression.

F.S. Flint