“These
Are the music of meet resignation; these
The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you
To magnify, if in that drifting waste
You are to be accompanied by more
Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.”
"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)
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Aaron Copland (1900–1990) American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit (1954).
“Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet
I, This section is also known as "Bread and Music"
Discordants (1916)
Context: Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”
Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight
Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Source: At First Sight
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
On Ideas: Ideals: India.
Melodies of Brindavan: Pandit Hariprasad Chourasia
“My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!”
Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist
“it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
92
95 poems (1958)
Variant: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince