JOHN UPDIKE ON STORYTELLING January 30, 2009
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In “Why I Write” from Picked-Up Pieces, John Updike says, “Storytelling, for all its powers of depiction, shares with music the medium of time, and perhaps its genius, its most central transformation, has to do with time, with rhythm and echo and the sense of time not frozen as in a painting but channeled and harnessed as in a symphony….”
EZRA POUND ON MUSIC, POETRY, AND DANCE November 3, 2008
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Ezra Pound offers an interesting theory on the relationship of poetry to music and dance: “Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
ANCIENT RHYTHMS May 4, 2006
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According to Sigurd Olson, “When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live.”
