Though Symonds mentions slurringly a great poet like Baudelaire, still the following lines should be carefully pondered by many of our versifiers: "The carving of cherry-stones in verse, the turning of triolets and rondeaux, the seeking after sound and color without heed for sense, is all foredoomed to final failure."
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The silly ideas and emotions about which versifiers get excited are often an index to their own moral and intellectual failing, as well as their aesthetic deficiency.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Many modern versifiers identify poetry with ornament and figures, and it is impossible for them to write a poem without a succession of figures.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell