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Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

Music is love searching for a word.

Well: Love and Pain
Be kinfolks twain;
Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.

Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

His song was only living aloud,
His work, a singing with his hand!

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies,
In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.