Date: August 1817
"Poetry is the music of language, expressing the music of the mind."
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Date: August 1817
"The musical in sound is the sustained and continuous; the musical in thought and feeling is the sustained and continuous also."
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Date: 1818
"But poetry makes these odds all even. It is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind, untying as it were 'the secret soul of harmony.'"
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