“The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill, is cordial speech.”
Merlin's Song II
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”
Canto 2, stanza 43
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5
“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
Harvard University Department of Music, Music and Criticism, A Symposium (May 1947; published 1948, p. 11 https://archive.org/details/musiccriticismsy00symp/page/10)
Letters from New York https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdid=book-dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdot=1 (1841-1843), p. 206, Letter XXVIII, 29 Sep 1842
1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Context: The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.