But from the mechanism of the environment there comes cumulative and incremental warning that something extraordinary and fatal is about to happen.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
They are not the determining and fundamental characteristics of verse-those have already been discussed-but rather its sources of incremental beauty, of richness and, subtle power.
"The Principles of English Versification"
Paull Franklin Baum