Ursula K. Le Guin : Late in the Day
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Meaning of the Sound in Prose
When you're talking about the sound and the rhythm of prose, it is so different from poetry, because it's much coarser in a way. Of course, the sentence has its rhythms too, and Woolf was intensely aware of that. It's sort of one of these experiential things that we don't really have a vocabulary for it. You can only say so much about music, and then you simply have to play it, so the person can hear it and get it or not get it. Right.
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