“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)” ShouldEndsEnoughSoundAchievePoundsEchoesRhymeWelsh Author:Anne Stevens
“Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.” KnowsFeelsHeartFunnySoundMy HeartPoundsBring Me Down Author:Nadia Ali
“Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.” MomentsPoetryLiteratureSoundProveMemorablePoundsAvoidedTextureEliotMemorable Moments Book:Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 Source: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014
“The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound” IfsSoundBrainWeightPoundsSyllables Book:Dickinson Source: Dickinson