Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert
Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. Alain de Botton
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Françoise Sagan
My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature. Jackson Pollock
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. Wallace Stevens
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. George Crumb