<p>Quel est celui de nous qui n'a pas, dans ses jours d'ambition, rêvé le miracle d'une prose poétique, musicale sans rythme et sans rime, assez souple et assez heurtée pour s'adapter aux mouvements lyriques de l'âme, aux ondulations de la rêverie, aux soubresauts de la conscience?</p><p>C'est surtout de la fréquentation des villes énormes, c'est du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports que naît cet idéal obsédant.</p>
"Dédicace, À Arsène Houssaye" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose
Le spleen de Paris (1862)
“The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”
As quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 194
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French composer 1862–1918Related quotes
“It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”
“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”
Source: The Complete Essays
Form in Modern Poetry(1932)
Notes (1913) http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/exiles.html#notes made by Joyce for his play Exiles
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.”
Big Dreams http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-dreams-2/
From the poems written in English
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 1 : Music and Sound
“I write music with my mouth — first lyrics, then song, then rhythm.”
On his creative process in “An Interview with Tato Laviera, the King of Nuyorican Poetical Migrations” https://www.latinorebels.com/2012/07/11/an-interview-with-tato-laviera-the-king-of-nuyorican-poetical-migrations/ in Latino Rebels (2012 Jul 11)