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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Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow