Rhythm Quotes - Page 31

• It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Art, Joy

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• I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Blue, Color, White

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• For you are abstract,
  making no mistake,
  slurring no word
  in the rhythm you make,
  the poem,
  writ in the air.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Mistake, Air, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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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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• 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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• ...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.

  Jimmy Lyons

  Feelings, Black, Saxophone

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

  Anais Nin

  New York, Cities, Jazz

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• Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

  Anthony Davis

  Meaningful, Important, Elements

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

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• One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Giving, Said

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• Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Home, Mean, Yesterday

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Russia, Rhythm Of Life, Air

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, America, Ears

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• I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Ocean, Taken, Sea

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• I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

  Kate Clinton

  Lines, Comedy, One Liner

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

  Edna Ferber

  Color, Cities, People

  Edna Ferber (1917). “Fanny Herself”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally--a love--it is safer, too, to show that we're mad when we're mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Father, Hate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

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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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