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— Yannis Philippakis"I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing."
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I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.
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I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.
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