Quote:- Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
Author:- Edgar Allan Poe
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Music, When Soft Voices DieMusic, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
The Complete Poems
Author:- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
The Republic
Author:- Plato
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will keep us together, will tear us apart, sucks.
Another Whole Nother Story
Author:- Cuthbert Soup
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [--] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space—for wilderness and for public space—must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Author:- Rebecca Solnit
Category:- time
Quote:- Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and experiments, for the benefit of all mankind - and what thanks do you get? People call you "egghead" or "boffin" or "heretic", and they cave your face in with a rock and bury you out in the wilderness. Not literally - not in this day and age - but you get the idea. Scientists are mistrusted by huge swathes of the general public, who see them as emotionless lab-coated meddlers-with-nature rather than, say, fellow human beings who've actually bothered getting off their arses to work this shit out.
Author:- Charlie Brooker
Category:- science
Quote:- Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,And night devour its flaming hues alway?
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Author:- Clark Ashton Smith
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Author:- Siegfried Sassoon
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
Author:- Fred Rogers
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.
Letters from a Stoic
Author:- Seneca
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.
I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
Author:- Julie Klausner
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Author:- Socrates
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the sky, warm heated planets inside a universe of stars.-Richard
Girlfriend in a Coma
Author:- Douglas Coupland
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- MY ART FOR YOUR HEARTI'm writing you a poem;but the lights will soon be out in five minutes.Wow! I'm writing it in foreign;so, I hope you'll embrace the intention of the syntax.One word, two sentences, then a paragraph;I'm summing out my love for you in art.Now, will your smile warmly receive this craft;because I have signs, letters, and numbers for your heart?
Author:- Mitta Xinindlu
Category:- Love
Quote:- My art unkind, my energy all gone blind;The limbs uneven, the face shallower,Because those who I see are not seen,Those who see me are rude indeed. So blow, blow dear winter, just blow along me!
Happening:Poems
Author:- Santosh Kalwar
Category:- poetry
Quote:- My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
Author:- George Santayana
Category:- motivational