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“One cannot say with words what music says without them.”

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Steven Feld, born on August 20, 1949, is a renowned ethnomusicologist. His research focuses on African music and ethnomusicology, engaging in in-depth fieldwork to explore the interaction between music and culture. more

“The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.”

Two Use Three Energy Tasks Compromise Irony Cheating Distraction Distracted Three Things Exhausting Multitasking Virtuosity Cheating Yourself

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.”

Lines Air Wine Draught Undertaker Hull Raspberries

Author:Noel Coward

“Good wine needs no bush.”

Needs Wine Good Wine

Author:William Shakespeare

“To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.”

Wine Purple Vines Slumber

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.”

Wine Dinner Walnuts

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.”

Wine Cups Restraint French Wine

Book:The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser

Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser

“Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!”

Littles Book House Wish Doors Flower Garden Rivers Wine Wit Meat Halls Spices Lawns Nightingales

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.”

Men Three Wise Sea Moon Wine Shining Bowls Rakes Old Wine Seamen Ballast Gotham Three Wise Men

Book:Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey

Source: Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey

“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.”

Men May Made Self Given Pay Knowing Divine Sweet Wine Dues Bread Paradise Brutes Spoiled Priceless Thrift

Book:Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love

Source: Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love

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