The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
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