“Geometrical shapes form the intelligent and austere understructure of all arts, in a palace as well as a poem.”

Seeing abstract form as the skeleton of every art · Camera Work essay

• Art
• Form
• Structure

“A Japanese poet simply depicts a crow sitting on a withered branch, and leaves it to the reader to complete the poetic thought.”

Describing suggestion as the Japanese lyric method · Essay on Japanese poetry

• Poetry
• Readers
• Suggestion

“Like the composers of the day I believe not in the old ideals but in new methods of expression.”

Aligning verse with modernist experiment · Instead of a Preface, My Rubaiyat

• Innovation
• Modernity
• Poetry