Quotes about Rhythm

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

And I saw that all things did harmonize, not with their places only, but with their seasons.

The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

fly in the afternoon if you're headed west and in the morning if you're going east..If you have to take a night flight, he suggests at least trying to get in a nap the day before. "Taking a nap before you're exhausted can actually reduce the adverse effect of being awake at the wrong time of day. This is what we refer to as prophylactic napping.

The bell that measures time is ringing.

Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.