“All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.”
John Ruskin book The Ethics of the Dust
Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders, section 35
The Ethics of the Dust (1875)
“It seems wrong that out of this bird,
Black, bold, a suggestion of dark
Places about it, there yet should come
Such rich music, as though the notes’
Ore were changed to a rare metal
At one touch of that bright bill.”
"A Blackbird Singing"
Poetry For Supper (1958)
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