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Music, ho, music such as charmeth sleep!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc. 1, l. 83.
"Charmeth" means induces like a charm.)
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The bird is lost,
Dead, with all the music:
While sunsets heard the brain's music
Faded to last horizon notes.
(Owen Dodson (b. 1914), U.S. poet. Yardbird's Skull (l. 1-4). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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O I shall hear skull skull,
Hear your lame music,
Believe music rejects undertaking,
Limps back.
(Owen Dodson (b. 1914), U.S. poet. Yardbird's Skull (l. 25-28). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
(Van Morrison (b. 1945), Irish rock musician. Times (London, July 6, 1990).)
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Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
(Conrad Aiken (1889-1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Discordants (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. letter, Aug. 23, 1917, to Pound's father. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1988).
Pound's grandfather was a Quaker.)
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Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 5, l. 1-2.)
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The music, yearning like a God in pain,
She scarcely heard:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Eve of St. Agnes (l. 56-57). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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