I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural..

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful po….

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 poems. I can talk about poeti….

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various k….

I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a be….

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

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentenc….

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as….

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You le….

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's abo….

Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control..

[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those….

The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much clo….