~Stephen Dunn, "Music," of the pair "Music/Noise," Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, 1998 a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned. a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space. Ululation and a stomp of heels, scat-sense, voice and ear living together in brilliant sin. The twang the nervous system wants when it's in revolt. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. ~Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, 1976 I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Florence Percy (Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen, 1832–1911), "A Brace of Sonnets," Forest Buds, from the Woods of Maine, 1855 Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. The Greeks fabled of Sphere-Harmonies: it was the feeling they had of the inner structure of Nature: that the soul of all her voices and utterances was perfect music. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, Song as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! The primal element of us of us, and of all things. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, "Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful," 1868Īll deep things are Song. Ow they all laughed at her, because she woke Amy in the night, by playing the piano on her face in her sleep. And when she saw the sunset from the hill behind her home, there was always music then - low and tender if the colors were soft and pale-tinted, grand and awful if the wind blew shreds and tatters of storm-clouds across a purpling sky. Even the clouds in the sky sailed slowly along in time to a stately march in her brain, or danced to the tune of a merry schottische that sounded for her ears alone. Musicians that have done time full#To Hester, all the world seemed full of melody. Music!-who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence? ~F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848
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