"Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing."

-- Nadia Boulanger

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“I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics
“People always ask, "Why jazz?" and I'm like "Why not?" It's kind of like asking Seurat, "Why so many dots?" I imagine if you asked Bjork, "Why the Tibetan bells?" She'd probably be like "That's just what I heard." It's the same thing. This is just the way I see music.”
“Thought is the soul of act.”
“I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man”
“Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.”
“The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.”
“I wish that I was where I am.”
“Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was trueâ€”life wasnâ€™t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasnâ€™t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.”

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