“Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it”

John Gould Fletcher

“I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter,a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me ...”

John Gould Fletcher

“Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.”

John Gould Fletcher

“To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables.”

John Gould Fletcher

“It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.”

John Gould Fletcher