Amy Lowell
Poet
"Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance."
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Cadence
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses."
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