Poetic Form Quotes

“Only by the form, the pattern, / Can words or music reach / The stillness’.”
― Michael D. Hurley, Poetic Form: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature

“In truth the prison, into which we doom Ourselves, no prison is … Wordsworth (‘Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room’)”
― Michael D. Hurley, Poetic Form: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature

“nothing can permanently please, which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise’.”
― Michael D. Hurley, Poetic Form: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature