Rhythmic Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Rhythmic

Please enjoy these Rhythmic Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
- Robert Delaunay

Every band had their own distinctive sound,
but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music
with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
- Ruben Blades

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I
strive for in my own music:
Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept,
and interesting harmonies.
- Chuck Mangione

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
- Stone Gossard

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point.
In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page,
it's not just a collection of notes.
- Harrison Birtwistle

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music,
almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do
that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
- Irvine Welsh

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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
- Taylor Dayne

Music has to be written while people are still excited
about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence.
The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
- Brandon Boyd

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony
orchestra into the kind of dynamic,
rhythmic thing.
- Gerry Mulligan

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma,
which is Allah, which is God.
- Ruth St.
Denis

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
- Paul Hirsch

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills
one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
- Gustav Stickley

I like creating these rhythmic patterns.
These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.
- Danny Elfman

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things,
and therefore left a lot of holes.
I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere.
All of the songs are built up of small melodies and
counter melodies all played very rhythmically.
- Midge Ure

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm.
I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters.
If one tells oneself that life is like that,
one feels it less arbitrary.
- Francoise Sagan

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined,
and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment
of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
- Gregory Bateson

The process of filmmaking is very musical,
you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is,
especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body
language and body movement.
- Charlotte Rampling

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the
rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Rita Dove

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and
the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost

A poet's autobiography is his poetry.
Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
- Thomas Gray

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- Marianne Moore

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -
but not without poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
- John Cage

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder,
with a dash of the dictionary.
- Khalil Gibran

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
- Muriel Rukeyser

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- John Ruskin

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings,
and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money,
either.
- Robert Graves

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has,
it may be inadvisable to draw it out...
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Carl Sandburg

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Robert Frost

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet
believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions,
all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle

Poetry should...
should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,
and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot

One merit of poetry few persons will deny:
it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- Voltaire

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Plutarch

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door,
leaving those who look through to guess about what
is seen during the moment.
- Carl Sandburg

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that.
Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
- Joseph Joubert

Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- Charles Simic

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered
into by reading other poems.
- John Barton

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
- Marilyn Hacker

I like poems that are little games.
- Peter Davison

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence,
there can't be much to it.
- James Schuyler

A poet's work is to name the unnameable,
to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,
shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- David Carradine

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- Wallace Stevens

The novel is born of disillusionment;
the poem,
of despair.
- Jose Bergamin

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,
but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality,
but an escape from personality.
But, of course, only those who have personality and
emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
- T. S. Eliot

You don't have to suffer to be a poet;
adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- John Ciardi

A poem begins as a lump in the throat,
a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
- Robert Frost

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved,
the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas Hardy

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Walt Whitman

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie