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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

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

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. — Mahalia Jackson

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. — Sefi Atta

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. — Edward Abbey

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. — Janet Fitch

A big fat zoo of snorers is snoring in all different rhythms — David Mitchell

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred. — Nicholas Dawidoff

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. — Caroline Knapp

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms - rarely if ever in simple straight lines. — Starhawk

A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God. — Shelly Miller

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. — Diana Athill

The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life. — Bryant McGill

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

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

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

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. — Timothy Noah

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums. — Dick Dale

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

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. — Tillie Olsen

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

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

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 nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I — Preston Sprinkle

Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery

Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before. — David Foster Wallace

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

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. — Zhang Yimou

Joy comes when we catch the rhythms of His heart. Peace comes when we live in harmony with those rhythms. — Ken Gire

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. — King Krule

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging. — Deepak Chopra

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

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

All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing. — Damian Wampler

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

The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. — Jeanette Winterson

I searched, but no one else had your rhythms, your light, the shady day you brought from the forest;
Nobody had your tiny ears. — Pablo Neruda

The terrain enforced its own rhythms. — Frank Herbert

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

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

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

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

Certain rhythms just have certain moods. — Dennis Brown

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. — Wallace Stevens

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

In the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. — Nick Bantock

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature. — Jackson Pollock

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. — W. H. Auden

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

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear. — David Anthony Durham

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity — Frank Lloyd Wright

We are full of rhythms ... our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. — Yehudi Menuhin

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ... — Muriel Rukeyser

Reef lit a hemp-and-tobacco cigarette and reviewed his situation, while around him infectious melodies and rhythms went on refashioning the night. — Thomas Pynchon

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture. — Richard Morris

Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world. — Cathryn Louis

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

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. — Pope Francis

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. — Helen Vendler

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock. — Jack Bruce

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers

That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create. — William Powers

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them. — Patricia Garfield

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. — Sulak Sivaraksa

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

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me. — David Almond

The idea of synchronizing her outer movements with the natural rhythms of her body inspired her, — Tami Lynn Kent

There are other beings live in between
interval rhythms of our consciousness. — Toba Beta

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

We all have our own rhythms to walk to. — Lauren Lola

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas

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

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals. — John Hartford

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

The skill of becoming and remaining attuned to another's emotional rhythms requires a solid investment of years. (205) — Thomas Lewis

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

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. — Patti Smith

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

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

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

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies. — Jonathan Lethem

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

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan

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

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

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms. — Muriel Barbery

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

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. — Stephen Dunn

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

Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world. — Cathryn Louis

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto

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