“No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm.”
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
'The Sounds of Poetry' Farrar,Strauss & Giroux 1998
The Sounds of Poetry 1998
“The rhythm of a poem ceases the moment the feeling loses its intensity.”
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
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