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• I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, Hands, Foreheads

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• Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Breathing, Dry, Faces

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• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

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• When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Moving, Two

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.74, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Moving, Islands

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• A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Memories, Simple

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• I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

  Ani DiFranco

  Offering, Progress, Fabric

  Song: The Slant

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• Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.

  Sarah Dessen

  Growing Up, Long, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.164, Penguin

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Sadness, Expression

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• The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Expression

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Memories, Essence

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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

  Jo Jones

  Music, Play, People

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Music, Dream, Mean

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

  Earle Birney

  Voice, Poetry, Essentials

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And in some mystic hour
  I shall move to unheard rhythms
  Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
  And you will know the language
  Of my wordless poems
  And will come to me
  For that is why I dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Moving, Heaven

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• An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

  Andre Maurois

  Running, Son, Men

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• Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Symphony, Silence

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• What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Book, Ties

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• Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Swings, Dandelions

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• A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

  Henry Beston

  Life, Moving, Garden

  Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.6, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Beauty, Struggle, Design

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

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