Search results for “after silence”
Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
The Ragged Edge of Silence: The Art of Listening
What 17 years of silence have to do with National Geographic and your ringtone.
The Soul, the Universe, and the Vastness of Music: Composer Caroline Shaw Brings Whitman and Tennyson to Life in the Spirit of the Golden Record
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Kierkegaard on the Spiritual and Sensual Power of Music, the Essence of Genius, and the Key to a Timeless Work of Art
“If Mozart ever became wholly comprehensible to me, he would for the first time become wholly incomprehensible to me.”
Bach and the Cosmos of Belonging: Michael Pollan on the Medicinal Power of Music
“Opened to the music, I became first the strings… and then the breeze of sound flowing past as it crossed the lips of the instrument and went out to meet the world, beginning its lonely transit of the universe.”
Paul Goodman on the Nine Kinds of Silence
“There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.”
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
The Cello and the Nightingales: Beatrice Harrison and How the World’s First Fake News United Humanity in Our First Collective Empathy for Nature
An improbable celebration of the three most interesting things in life, the things that make it worth living: nature, human nature, and their cross-pollination in music.
Einstein’s Mother: A Poem by Tracy K. Smith
“Was he mute a while, or all tears. Did he raise his hands to his ears so he could scream scream scream.”
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