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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. ↗

— George Eliot

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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. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

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I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. ↗

— Joanne Harris

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Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. ↗

— Laura Malone Elliott

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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. ↗

— Jay-Z

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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. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets....it is not the oboe nor the beating drums--nor the notes of the baritone singing his sweet romanza....nor those of the men's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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If Poe had stuck only to these principles, he would have written Love Story. Luckily he knew that if plot is the dominant element in every story, it must however be tempered with other elements...Hence his calculation of the number of lines, his analysis of the musicality of the word "Nevermore," and the deliberate visual contrast between Pallas's white breast and the blackness of the raven, and everything that makes "The Raven" a poetic composition and not a horror film. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it. ↗

— Yosa Buson

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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. ↗

— John Keats

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