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Poetry Withers And Dries Out When It Leaves Music, Or At Least Imagined Music, Too Far Behind It.
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Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined
music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or
become, bad poets.
-- Ezra Pound
Related:
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
-- Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B...
Music is the answer.
Put it to Music!
There is no music in space.
Poets go from bad to verse.
The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's too much Sax and Violins in Classical Music!
Opera - Music that goes in one aria and out the other.