“It demands desire of Zulykha Loyalty of Angels Vehemence of devils And patience of Prophet You may too need God's mouth To reveal rhyming letters” DesirePatienceRhymeEagernessRhymingProsody Author:Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.” PoetryPrayerPoetVariousParadigmProsody Book:Selected Poems 1930-1988 Source: Selected Poems 1930-1988
“Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.” Would BeThreeCoursesNaturalStudentsMathematicsCookingMythologyRhetoricSelectGeologyArchaeologyNatural HistoryPhilologyMeteorologyProsody Author:W. H. Auden
“What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.” EyeLanguageLinesBreakCreatingConnectionsEarsAddNarrativeProseUnitsEmphasisProsody Author:Diane Wakoski
“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 with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.” IfsKnowsNeedsBookPurposeReadingStuffSpaceWhitePiecesWrittenProjectsPagesStonesSentencesAcceptedCrapPrintedSpoken WordAnthologyPrinted WordWhite SpaceProsody Author: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 are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.” KnowsFeelsKindStuffWonderfulPoetShapesEgoComplexesContemporaryAll KindsFormalInventingWindyWonderful TimesProsody Author:Anne Waldman
“We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.” BelieveShowsPoetryLanguageNaturalWeightPsychicsSurveillanceDaylightReverieHammeredProsody Author:Gaston Bachelard
“I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.” WritingFirstsCoursesTeachStudentsProsody Author:Theodore Sturgeon