“The form of the poem should be a clear window-pane through which you see the poem's heart.”

Expressing her ideal that form should reveal rather than obscure feeling · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth

“When he has hit upon what he believes is his peculiar angle of vision, the poem is fairly begun.”

Defining originality as finding one's particular way of seeing · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth

“The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings.”

Connecting poetic creation with buried memory and feeling · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Memory
• Poetry