"Who that has heard a strain of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
“We should impart our courage and not our despair.”
“When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!”
More on Music
“Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.”
“Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.”
“Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow”
More on Expression
“Birds never sing in caves.”
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”