“My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.” LooksStuffSoundSimpleProduceMusic IsSymbols Author:Chuck Berry
“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.” ArtPoetrySoundPoetPureComplexesBoundsSymbolsPoetry IsConventionalArbitrary Author:Ezra Pound
“The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.” MenSpeakEnjoySoundWaterAnimalExampleBearsRiversSightEnvironmentalIncludingFishesSymbolsDependentUnitsInsectsEcologicalDeerOttersElk Author:William O. Douglas
“I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.” ThinkingWayLongSoundLinesSpaceReaderBreathsMusicalDrivingSymbolsHillsBridgesEtcTrafficPausesUrgencyIndicationSteepIcyIntersectionsLong Lines Author:Adrienne Rich