Henry Louis Gates Quotes | Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust th...

"Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer."

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When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.

— Rod Milburn

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The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

— George Oppen

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