Cadence Quote by Pattiann Rogers

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song…

— Mitch Albom

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

— James Fenton

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

— James Broughton