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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain...more

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing ...more

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O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In de...more

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.