Ezra Pound  - Quotes

 Rhythm must have meaning. 

Tags: poetry   prosody     


W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs. 

Tags: meter   poetry   prosody     
E.M. Forster  - Quotes

 In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted 

Tags: classics   prosody     


Wallace Stevens  - Quotes

 We say God and the imagination are one . . .

How high that highest candle lights the dark.
 

Tags: poetry   poets   prosody     
Seamus Heaney  - Quotes

 I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job 

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