“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”
![“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight…” quote by John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bcd/john-milton-191_age_rhyme-is-but-the-invention-of-a-barbarou_3127072.jpg)
![“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not…” quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9c/samuel-taylor-coleridge-425_causes_poetry-even-that-of-the-loftiest-and-see_2967829.jpg)
