Colleen

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius