When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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- When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
- From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
- So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.