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“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'”

Writing Said Soul Process Sound Music Subjects Poet Music Is Musical Sensations Confession Composition Definite Lyrical Indefinable

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.”

Body Hands Poetry Music Poet Demand Musician Roots Stupidity Dirty Clay Spades Poetry And Music Dirty Hands

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”

Heart Persons Beautiful Sound Music Cry Poet Profound Lips Unhappy Thrive Anguish Sigh Beautiful Music Unhappy Person

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

Ifs Needs Writing Humans May Self Artist Motivation Peace Human Beings Music Vision Poet Personality Musician Paint Being True Self Actualization Actualization Music Artist

Author:Abraham Maslow

“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”

Knows Moments Inspiration Lying Music Practice Cases Rich Poet Fine Perfection Liars Elsewhere Casual Utterance

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”

Art Form Universe Term Music Poet Materials Music Is Notes Singers Songwriting Seers

Author:Rabindranath Tagore