Cadence Quotes

56 quotes by 56 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler. — Rod Milburn
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
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up â€¦ then down â€¦ then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. Itâ€™s… — Gabrielle Hamilton
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet. — Thomas Gray
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
Iâ€™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
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
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
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
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
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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese
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
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

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