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God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
- quote by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Hark! the numbers soft and clear, Gently steal upon the ear; Now louder, and yet louder rise And fill with spreading sounds the skies.
- quote by Alexander Pope
He stood beside a cottage lone, And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.
- quote by Thomas Hervey
He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced, As some vast river of unfailing source, Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed, And opened new fountains in the human heart.
- quote by Robert Pollok
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
- quote by John Keats
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.
- quote by Oscar Wilde
Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not.
- quote by Samuel Butler
How her fingers went when they moved by note Through measures fine, as she marched them o'er The yielding plank of the ivory floor.
- quote by Benjamin F. Taylor
How irksome is this music to my heart! When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
- quote by William Shakespeare
How light the touches are that kiss The music from the chords of life!
- quote by Coventry Patmore