Cadences Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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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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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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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 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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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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[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.
— Frank Bruni
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Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us…
— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of…
— Julia Kristeva
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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.
— David Levithan
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His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in…
— Wallace Stevens
Who Wrote These Cadences Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Cadences Quotes as follows: