In this novel life passes by the author as a kind of dream, a dream within that nightmare Reality, a legend within that amorphousness called Life.
"The Created Legend"
Feodor Sologub
This freedom, under skilful control, may well produce felicitous results, but when not managed by poets of a strong and sure rhythmic sense-as it was not by the many Cowleyan imitators-it results merely in metrical license and amorphousness.
"The Principles of English Versification"
Paull Franklin Baum