Quote by Rae Armantrout Download Open image ““Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”” — Rae Armantrout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.” — Frank P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters, of Mozart. How was it with him in his day? Who controlled things in his times and ruled the roost and gave the tone and counted for something? Was it Mozart or the business people, Mozart… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
