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“Contrapuntal lines intertwine like kudzu on a ruined mansion.”

~Alex Ross, in The Rest is Noise

 ”The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”

~Jean Cocteau

“This is what happens to us in music: First one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate and delimit it as a separate life. Then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity. Finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing… That is how we have learned to love all things that we now love.”

~Nietzche, in The Gay Science