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Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

Jean Houston
Poetry And Music, World, Singers
Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Ray Manzarek
Thinking, Poetry And Music, Done

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

George Steiner
Father, Teaching, Poetry And Music
"George and his dragons" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead
Numbers, Poetry And Music, May
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Richard Dawkins
Art, Poetry And Music, Blank

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling
Art, Self, Poetry And Music
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Franz Grillparzer
Sound, Poetry And Music, Tone
"Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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