(435 quotes found)
“everything has rhythm. everything dances.”
Maya Angelou
“Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.”
Erica Jong
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all”
Wallace Stevens
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust”
Igor Stravinsky
“Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”
Elvis Presley
“The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
Gustave Flaubert
“The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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