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Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...

— Randall Jarrell A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)

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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.

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The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

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Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

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If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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