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You can only get open in two ways, off of the line or out of your breaks.

— Amari Cooper

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language…

— Gaston Bachelard

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed…

— Richard Meltzer

The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets…

— Anne Waldman

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

— W. H. Auden

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of…

— W. H. Auden

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

— Diane Wakoski

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,…

— Louis L'Amour

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a…

— L. Ron Hubbard