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“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.”
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Poetry
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams1911–1983The Glass Menagerie (1944)
- Music
People go to the movies instead of moving!
Tennessee Williams1911–1983The Glass Menagerie (1944), Tom, Scene Six
- Movies
A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” (1992), Ch. 7: Work, §3: Personal Power
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96
- Music
- Technology
People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e
- Music
- Poetry
A light here required a shadow there.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941To the Lighthouse (1927), Part I, Ch. 9
Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Personal Talk, Stanza 2
- Music
The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet’s dream.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 4 (wr. 1805; pub. 1807)
- Poetry
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee
William Wordsworth1770–1850London, 1802 (1807)In context
- Patriotism
- Poetry
I listen’d till I had my fill:
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth1770–1850The Solitary Reaper (1807)In context
- Music
Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959The Future of Architecture (1953)
- Poetry
I went to a museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Steven Wrightborn 1955Steven Wright Special (1985)
- Comedy
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Among School Children (1927)In context
- Dancing
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
- Comedy
- Music