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Imagination All Compact.
The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to
earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms
of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy
nothing A local habitation and a name.
- William Shakespeare
The Novelist and the Poet.
Every successful novelist must be more or less a poet, even although
he may never have written a line of verse. The quality of imagination is
absolutely indispensible to him; his accurate power of examining and embodying
human character and human passion, as well as the external face of nature,
is not less essential; and the talent describing well what he feels with
acuteness, added to the above requisites, goes far to complete the poetic
character.
- Sir Walter Scott
Intuition.
Intuition alone, however tenuous its consistency, however improbable
its shape, is a criterion of truth and, for that reason, deserves to be
accepted by the mind because it alone is capable, if the mind can extract
that truth, of bringing it to greater perfection and of giving it pleasure
without alloy. Intuition for the writer is what experiment is for the learned,
with the difference that in the case of the learned the work of the intelligence
precedes and in the case of the writer it follows.
That which we have not been forced to decipher, to clarify by our own
personal effort, that which was made clear before, is not ours. Only that
issues from ourselves which we ourselves extract from the darkness within
ourselves and which is unknown to others. And as art exactly recomposes
life, an atmosphere of poetry surrounds those truths within ourselves to
which we attain, the sweetness of a mystery which is but the twilight through
which we have passed.
- Marcel Proust
What Metre Is.
The difference between the rhythms of prose and verse is this, that
poetry selects certain rhythms and makes systems of them, and these repeat
themselves; and this is metre.
- Robert Bridges
On Style.
Altogether, the style of a writer is a faithful representative of his
mind; therefore, if any man wish to write a clear style, let him be first
clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him
first possess a noble soul.
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