Poetry And Music Quotes - Page 2

• Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sound, Tone, Consideration

  "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Spiritual, Photography, Emotional

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• A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

  Alan Watts

  Baby, Philosophy, War

  Alan W. Watts (2007). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality”, p.23, New World Library

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• My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

  George Steiner

  Father, Teaching, Finest

  "George and his dragons" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Children, Sculpture

  James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”

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• Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

  Lyall Watson

  Artist, Expression, Space

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• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Ocean, Night

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• I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

  Louise Jameson

  Witty, Fun, Years

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• I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Blank, Spots

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• You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Numbers, May, Faces

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry and music I have banished,
  But the stupidity
  Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
  Makes no demand.
  I bend my body to the spade
  Or grope with a dirty hand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Music, Dirty, Roots

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and comes from the ranchers and farmers.

  Michael Martin Murphey

  Music, Country, Cowboy

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  Laura Marling

  Art, Self, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Thinking, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

  Henry Martyn

  Beautiful, Art, Pride

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• I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

  Ray Manzarek

  Thinking, Done, World

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• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

  Jean Houston

  World, Singers, Metaphor

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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