Cadence Quotes
"To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" l. 15 (1684)
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.83, Bantam
Sam Keen (1994). “Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit in Everyday Life”, Bantam
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.
"The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes, a life of the author, and an essay on his poetry, by J. Mitford”, p.33