ficke

Updated: May 18, 2025

I venture the first right these things have to be taken care of in museums is to stimulate to new creative effort. I went to look over the Chicago collection with a friend and poet Arthur Davison Ficke. He said something to this effect: "The first thing I see when I look at these fragments is the whole cathedral in all its original proportions.

Vachel Lindsay - The Art of the Moving Picture

In a period marked by enthusiasm for new experiments in versification, new feats of technique, the borderland between real conquests of novel territory and sheer nonsense verse becomes very hazy. The Spectra hoax, perpetrated so cleverly in 1916 by Mr. Ficke and Mr. Emerson's memory for names was faulty, and he was trying to indicate the author of the "tintinnabulation of the bells."

Bliss Perry - A Study of Poetry