Cadence Quotes
56 quotes by 56 authors
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
— James Emanuel
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens…
— Gabe Jennings
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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move…
— Bob Cousy
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.…
— Kathryn Stripling Byer
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many…
— Anne McCaffrey
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When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.
— Rod Milburn
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Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man…
— Constance Hale
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
— Thomas Gray
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
— Henry Louis Gates
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I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it,…
— Federico Fellini
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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the…
— Michael Cunningham
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds…
— Plotinus
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The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the…
— Susan McClary
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The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer…
— Geoffrey Dutton
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle…
— James Laughlin
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
— Cesare Pavese
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Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,…
— Sam Keen
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The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now…
— Robert Charles Wilson
Who Wrote These Cadence Quotes
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