“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.” HandsPoetryWaitingDarkHeardFeetMinesBrokenTasteMusicianContemplationFancyCheerFabricUnseenMagicianPalacesFablesWandsPortalCupidArabian Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” YearsChildrenMotherMusicFeetMusicianSingingSittingPianoStringsDuskVistas Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.” WritingEyeFireFeetMusicianEarsTonguePainterDancerPensTorchesQuills Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.” GivingGodRunningChristianFeetStrengthMusicianGet BackPastor Author:Marvin Sapp
“As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.” PastFeetMusician Author:Dizzy Gillespie