rhythm quotes

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

-Feininger, Lyonel
  Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my manö Who could ask for anything more.

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'I Got Music', featured in the film Girl Crazy (music by George Gershwin).

All God's Chillum Got Rhythm. 454

-Kahn, Gus
   Title of song.

La Poe¤  sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene¤  e a'   son rythme essentiel, du sens myste¤  rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite¤ notre se¤  jour et constitue la seule ta"  che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.

-Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane
  Letter to M. Le¤  o d'Orfer, 27  Jun.

There issuch a thing as luck.There issuch a thing as a run of luck. This is an instructive insight I have gained from pokeröthat all things have a rhythm, even the most seemingly inanimate of statistics.

-Mamet, David Alan
  Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.

Seul le rythme provoque le court-circuit poe¤  tique et transmue le cuivre en or, la parole en verbe. Only rhythm brings about a poetic short-circuit and transforms the copper into gold, the words into life.

-Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar
  EŁ  thiopiques, postface.

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