If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Herbert ReadCreeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert ReadThe modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.
Herbert Read