Cadence Quotes

Cadence Quote of the day

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

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 of them in a sentence as possible

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.

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 inner ear.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.

Your cadence is your music.

To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

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.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.