"The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art" (English Association Leaflet, 13, July 1909)
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
“I believe in beautiful messes…I like to splatter a lot.”
On his creative process in “Juan Felipe Herrera On Poetry In Tough Times” https://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523466543/juan-felipe-herrera-on-poetry-in-tough-times in NPR (2017 Apr 12)
Travis Parker, Chapter 13, p. 166
Variant: conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Context: Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
[Sharma, S. D., Sarangi maestro calls present music soulless drudgery, The Tribune, 28 February 2008, http://www.webcitation.org/5pb5rvJkI]
“It's true, I'm a Rubik's—a beautiful mess”
"Walk on Water"
2010s, Revival (2017)
