" In writing poetry, one is always aided and even carried away by the rhythm of exterior things: for the lyric cadence is that of nature: of the waters, the wind, the night.

But to write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood.

Prose needs to be built like a cathedral: there one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help: on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness. "

― Rainer Maria Rilke , Letters to a Young Poet