Facts of life Quote by Henry Miller

“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and…

— Evelyn Underhill

“He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so…

— Katie Waitman

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying…

— George Eliot

“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his head, and…

— Mark Twain

“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and…

— Jon Meacham

“Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly…

— Garth Nix

“Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking; men, he…

— Janet Spens

“Radically new spiritual movements are cropping up, notably the “atheist” practice of Syntheism. And musicians are creating stranger and stranger electrical sounds and rhythms,…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled…

— Plato

“It was all of this: The beat and the heat and the neat repeat of the notes which poured from the congohelium—metal never made…

— Cordwainer Smith

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring…

— Bruno Walter

“On the edge of a tropical ocean, in a thousand reflections of the silver light of an invisible moon, among undulations of restless waters,…

— Henri Michaux