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“Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.”

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Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.”

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Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.”

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Book:Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

Source: Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!”

Evil Music Is Poetry Is Primitive

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich