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Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

The words of the world want to make sentences.