From Heraclitus: “The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.”
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Quote of the day 08/11/25
From John Keats: “There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.”
Quote of the day 08/05/25
From John Keats: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
Quote of the day 07/30/25
From John Keats: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.”
Quote of the day 07/21/25
From Basho: “Birth of art –song of rice planters,chorus from nowhere.”
Quote of the day 07/16/25
From Basho: “The temple bell stopsBut the sound keeps comingout of the flowers”
Quote of the day 05/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The important but usually overlooked part of Christ’s short sermon, is the words ‘how they grow.’ The point is not the beauty of the flower, not the beauty of a Bach fugue but, how it grows. How does it grow? Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Bach attempted the task of explaining howContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/17/25”
Quote of the day 03/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Pater says, ‘All art aspires towards the condition of music.’ Action does the same, and when it reaches it, it is the activity of Zen.”
Quote of the day 12/04/24
From Douglas Adams: “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Quote of the day 12/02/24
From Lao Tzu: “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
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