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— Carl Sandburg"Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths."
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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 breathing or eating.
— Robert Pinsky
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The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.
— Susan McClary
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