A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
T. E. HulmeThe first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
T. E. HulmeThe artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.
T. E. Hulme