"Every speech is at once a language serving the purposes of will, expressing intimate desires and commands, and at same time expressing thoughts by a sequence of concepts."

“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.”

“The natural cadence of our emotions are the driving force behind our poetic expressions.”

“My three propositions to poetry are:”

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

“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.”

“Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.”