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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
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like. -- Joan Larkin
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals. -- John Hartford
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. -- Janet Fitch
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. -- Caroline Knapp
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. -- Gary Lucas
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 do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable. -- Brian Eno
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. -- E. L. Doctorow
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. -- Charles Kuralt
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. -- Johannes Brahms
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. -- Shelby Foote
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. -- Scott Adams
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play. -- Dick Van Dyke
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. -- George Crumb
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. -- Olivier Messiaen
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. -- Mark Udall
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. -- Hillary Clinton
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. -- Nicolas Cage
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions. -- Yanni
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. -- Jerry Saltz
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive. -- Jerry Saltz
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. -- Wynton Marsalis
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. -- Maya Angelou
Certain rhythms just have certain moods. -- Dennis Brown
Life is filled with music and rhythms -- Julius Veal
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear. -- David Anthony Durham
Because art is life, playing to other rhythms. -- Muriel Barbery
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. -- Deepak Chopra
My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, -- C. E. M. Joad
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. -- Alain de Botton
There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness. -- Toba Beta
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. -- Helen Vendler
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. -- Zhang Yimou
There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them. -- Patricia Garfield
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature. -- Jackson Pollock
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks. -- Alan Watts
Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging. -- Deepak Chopra
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. -- W. H. Auden
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. -- Timothy Noah
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. -- Edward Abbey
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. -- Jeanette Winterson
There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies. -- Jonathan Lethem
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. -- Pope Francis
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. -- Mahalia Jackson
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ... -- Muriel Rukeyser
True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. -- Sulak Sivaraksa
For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. -- Sefi Atta
I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head. -- Elizabeth Crook
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. -- Francoise Sagan
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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
The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life. -- Bryant McGill
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. -- Timothy Leary
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. -- Tillie Olsen
Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. -- Stephen Dunn
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. -- Patti Smith
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. -- Diana Athill
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. -- Paul Valery
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums. -- Dick Dale
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. -- King Krule
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. -- Nick Bantock
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. -- Wallace Stevens
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace. -- Pope John Paul II
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. -- Pattiann Rogers
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms. -- Stephen Stills
I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited. -- Kate del Castillo
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms -- Stephen Stills
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. -- Hunter S. Thompson
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet. -- Nicole Krauss
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. -- Ray Manzarek
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
I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go. -- Armando Iannucci
Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes. -- John Noble
Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift. -- Shelby Harris
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters -- Julio Cortazar
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. -- Adrian Mitchell
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. -- Alfred North Whitehead
You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms). -- Deepak Chopra
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love -- Ruth St. Denis
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. -- Ruth St. Denis
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. -- Deepak Chopra
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind. -- Gary Snyder
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
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. -- George Crumb
I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on. -- Alvin Lee
You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. -- Bill Buford
The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry -- Glenn Aparicio Parry
Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes. -- Anthony Hopkins
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin. -- William Kean Seymour
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure. -- Annea Lockwood
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex. -- Charles Darwin
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
I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. -- Marianne Wiggins
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. -- Sandra E. Lamb
I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world. -- Jerri Nielsen
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables. -- James Fenton
Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. -- Louise Erdrich
Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance. -- Gabrielle Roth
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords. -- Jonny Greenwood
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
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. -- Miroslav Vitous
My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. -- Dana Carvey
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
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach. -- Chino Moreno
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound. -- Charles E. Burchfield
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away. -- Umberto Eco
We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms. -- Shelby Harris
And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. -- Donna George Storey
He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight. -- Douglas Adams
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand. -- Robert Genn

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