Everything in the universe has a rhythm. Everything dances.

The combined two-sentence form is widely attributed to Maya Angelou, but the article indicates her documented uses are split across separate interviews: she used the idea that the universe has rhythm when discussing writing process (1973), and separately said that everything dances while talking about her love of dance and seeing choreography in nature (1974). The earliest close match for the first sentence alone appears in 1922 in an article by Celia Caroline Cole.

The saying frames nature and human experience as patterned and dynamic: everything follows cycles and pulses, and those patterns can be understood as a kind of universal movement akin to dance.

Everything in the universe has rhythm: The rising and the setting of the sun, the ebb and flow of the sea, the coming of the stars, the seasons.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm. Everything dances.