Quotes about Rhythm

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.

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. 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.

Anon they move in perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.

My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.

A leisurely pace accomplishes more than hurried striving.

time for everything, and everything in its time.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.