I have not used rhyme, because what is really, in the long run, of most interest to American readers is what the poems say; and if one uses rhyme, it is impossible not to sacrifice sense to sound.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have not used rhyme, because what is really, in the long run, of most interest to American readers is what the poems say; and if one uses rhyme, it is impossible not to sacrifice sense to sound." in the context of "Translations from the Chinese (1941), p. 1" to mean that wisdom is timeless.