Past events are not dead but constantly making their claims on the present, modifying it even as they themselves are modified in the maw of subsequen… - Vernon Scannell

The practice of reading aloud did do something towards attuning my ear .The subtle cadences of Elizabethan blank verse taught me more than the substantial study of English prosody could do at that time.

The intellect had rejected the rational basis of belief, yet the imagination & sensibility yearn for simple faith.

It is impossible for a poet to fashion the voice deliberately by contrivance and experiment; it could not be discovered or simulated through the cultivation of an eccentric diction or prosody, or by the employment of regional speech rhythms and patterns.