'...what banalities! What ineptitudes! They make the mistake, our modern free-versifiers, of thinking that Art can be founded on the Negation of Form. Art can be founded on every other Negation. But not on that one - never on that one! Certainly they have a right to experiment; to invent - if they can - new forms. But they must invent them. They must not just arrange their lines to look like poetry, and leave it at that.'
from Visions and Revisions by John Copwer Powys (Walt Whitman chapter)
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