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“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.”

Way States Feelings Lying Bed Quiet Melody Formal

Author:Julian Lennon

“My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.”

“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”

Way Christian Song Grows Voice Sweet Sorrow Quiet Angel Increase Notes Charity Graves Pursue Melody Harsh Sweetest Restful

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.”

Mind Different Age Young Song Wind Easier Quiet Bird Gentle Tunes Melody Young Age Playing Music Recorders

Author:Dave Smalley

“I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.”

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Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.”

Knows Giving Feels Writing I Can Ideas Happens Song Please Quiet Give Me Melody

Author:Stevie Wonder

“I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.”

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.”

Heart Father Felt Sound Practice Doors Quiet Instruments Opening Melody Warmth Closing Our Father Closure Heart Opening

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.”

Perfect Alive Blood Quiet Notes Melody Nerves Butterfly Rushing Matched

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.”

World Sound Silence Quiet Ears Notes Perceive Melody Chords Vibrations

Author:Albert Camus

“Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.”

Body Song Stars Waiting Behinds Sun Violence Creation Planets Quiet Patient Rage Gentle Melody Continuing Galaxy Explosions Hydrogen Birthing Stars And Planets

Book:Many Waters

Source: Many Waters