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Quotes About Caesura

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
~ Jonathan Coe
The real issue is that every line is a broken line. You retrace your steps and nothing is familiar. So you turn around to come back only now you've got the same problem going the other way. Every worldline is discrete and the caesura ford a void that is bottomless. Every step traverses death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I teach him how to pair such technique with masculine or feminine caesura, or the joys of alternating iambic foot with unstressed pyrrhic, or the self-indulgence of the frequent spondee. I
~ Dan Simmons