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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 courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking. -- 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. -- Diane Wakoski
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. -- Gaston Bachelard

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