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“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze. To call…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“An Evening Air I go out in the grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. I go…

— Samar Sen

“And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.”

— Daniel James Brown

“[T]here were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The…

— Anonymous

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core…

— Virginia Woolf

“There is always a harmonious melody in a quiet place for a peaceful heart.”

— Bruce Mbanzabugabo

“Her kisses were the wings of butterflies, beating softly upon lips of crushed petals.”

— Michael Faudet

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“But in a gale, the silent machinery of a sailing-ship would catch not only the power, but the wild and exulting voice of the…

— Joseph Conrad