Quotations regarding rhythm in poetry:
As regarding Rhythm: To compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
(Ezra Pound, “A Retrospect,” in Literary Essays, pg. 3.)LISTEN to the sound that it makes.
(Ezra Pound, “Treatise on Meter,” in ABC of Reading, pg. 201)Poetry and music are both patterns of sound drawn on a background of time.
(Basil Bunting, Basil Bunting on Poetry, pg. 4)counts beat against beat, bus conductor
against engine against wheels against
the pedal, Tottenham Court Road, decodes
thunder, scans
porridge bubbling, pipes clanking…
(Basil Bunting, “Briggflatts,” II.11 -II.15)
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