Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
They seem an exaltation without sound.
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"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"Wallace Stevens
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These
Are the music of meet resignation; these
The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you
To magnify, if in that drifting waste
You are to be accompanied by more
Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.Wallace Stevens
Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
Thomas Aquinas
Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
Thomas Aquinas
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden— "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
I am out of humanity's reach.
I must finish my journey alone,
Never hear the sweet music of speech;
I start at the sound of my own.William Cowper
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