A Quote by John Dryden

Music is inarticulate poesy.

John Dryden

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Inarticulate Music Music Is

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John Dryden
English - Poet
August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Oswald Chambers

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Richard Wagner

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

Walther von der Vogelweide

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Thomas Carlyle

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Plato

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

William Shakespeare

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Lord Byron

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

Boris Pasternak

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Abraham Cowley

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.