
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).
and many after him
Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City
"Under One Small Star"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
Context: I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way.
Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova, July 30, 1868; Jay Leyda and Sergei Bertensson The Musorgsky Reader (1947) p. 113.