Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness. Johan Huizinga
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  2. Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms. - Curtis Tyrone Jones

  3. Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. - Deepak Chopra

  4. I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. - Edgar Allan Poe

  5. Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Johan Huizinga
  1. If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and...

  2. The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

  3. An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.

  4. Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax,...

  5. For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precautions...

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