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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
When words leave off, music begins.
When words leave off, music begins.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long read more
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of read more
As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.
