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“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”

Knows Sometimes Poet Spring Soil Muse Shifting Pun Matching Vowels Consonants Assonance

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.”

Kind Stills Use Prose Verses Cadence Free Verse Alliteration Assonance

Author:Amy Lowell

“I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.”

Made Book Series Inspired Titles Distraction Howl Assonance

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.”

Lines Modern Middle Poet Favors Echoes Rhyme Alliteration Assonance

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.”

Looks Mean Ends Boxes Internals Rhyme Sonnet Assonance

Author:Anna Journey

“Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.”

Ends Clear Concepts Vague Ambiguous Assonance

Author:Erich Fromm

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'”

Ifs Giving Running Turns Stars Stuff Streets Goes On Track Rhythm Nerves Knives Chasing Preps Assonance

Author:Frank O'Hara

“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.”

Enough Use Leaving Novelists Devices Traps Rhyme Clue Foreshadowing Alliteration Literary Devices Assonance

Book:Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life

Source: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life

“Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.”

Mind Corridors Alliteration Assonance

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow