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Quotes About Rhythm

Let us dance as if life is a dance of our soul and spirit.
~ Debasish Mridha
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
~ Ajay Naidu
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is music written for the human voice.
~ Maya Angelou
That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
~ Lord Byron
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
~ Amiri Baraka
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
~ Groucho Marx
Prose talks and poetry sings.
~ Franz Grillparzer
When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.
~ Steve Winwood
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
~ Jay-Z
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
~ Aileen Fisher
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
~ John Steinbeck
Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
~ Carl Sandburg
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
~ Pattiann Rogers
When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
~ Eddie Izzard
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
~ Kate Clinton
In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.
~ Pattiann Rogers
The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.
~ Kim Hyesoon