Associations to the word «Caesura»

Wiktionary

CAESURA, noun. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.
CAESURA, noun. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

Dictionary definition

CAESURA, noun. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued".
CAESURA, noun. A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca