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We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don’t plagiarize or take ‘on loan’. There’s always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.

Music is poetry in motion.

Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain “If anybody is sleep let him go to sleep” (Cage, 1961). Midway through, the artist Jean Reynal stood up and screamed, “John, I dearly love you, but I can’t bear another minute.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Music is poetry in motion.

Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain “If anybody is sleep let him go to sleep” (Cage, 1961). Midway through, the artist Jean Reynal stood up and screamed, “John, I dearly love you, but I can’t bear another minute.