Rhythm Quotes - Page 31

• Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

  Seamus Heaney

  Smile, Miles

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Field Work: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

  Frank Loesser

  Together, Sound, Shapes

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• The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

  Herbert Read

  Discipline, Feelings, Progress

  "Collected Essays in Literary Criticism". Book by Herbert Read, 1938.

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• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

  Frederick Franck

  Doe, Void, Creation

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• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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• The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built.

  Bob Gaudio

  People, Four Seasons, Looks

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• There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

  Alton Tobey

  Color, Musical, Painting

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• The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

  Leland Bell

  Artist, Reality, Roles

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• If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sex, Children, Rhythm Of Life

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

  Chris Abani

  Night, Quality, Tears

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

  Paul Ormerod

  Views, World, Economics

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

  Robert Hunter

  Inspiration, Done, Lines

  "Song: "Lady With a Fan"". 1977.

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• Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Foundation, Language, Familiar

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• We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

  Judie Brown

  Abortion, Drug, Pills

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• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

  Gloria Naylor

  Technology, Two, World

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• If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

  Brad Leithauser

  Heart, Echoes, Doe

  "Why We Should Memorize" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Two, Torn Apart

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.

  David Sedaris

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.

  Daniel James Brown

  Fighting, Civilization, Balance

  Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.357, Penguin

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• Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

  Donna Farhi

  Silence, Mind, Heartbeat

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• What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

  Wyclef Jean

  Crazy, Feet, People

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• I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

  Max Roach

  Hero, Thinking, Style

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