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“Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.”

Pain Hate Lost Music Trouble Quiet And Love Trumpets Peace And Quiet

Author:Ann Petry

“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

“Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?”

Knows Men Mind Pain Causes Music Study Ass Usual

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

Pain Sound Attention Music Streets Endless Sat Italian Opera Sheer Anguish Torment Obliged Crowded Solace Barren Inexplicable Crowded Streets

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.”

Pain Joy Grief Music Fate Please Despair Madness Rage Ease Bliss Charm

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author