<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476759" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Matter is Music. The Atoms Sing.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Matter is music. The atoms sing. A frog <br>leaps into the water and strings a guitar. <br>Tree rings like odes in the heartwood of the apple.<br>The rain breaks like tears into tiny harps. <br>A gust of stars, a lyric of dust wheeling <br>into galaxies like symphonies in hydrogen alpha.<br>And the light, too, playing the flowers <br>like the stops of a flute, and the leaves <br>like semi-quavers, and their fruit, like whole notes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Adagios of colour, bass runs of taste, <br>and sound the echo of a shape shifting mirror<br>that touches the light like a lake <br>touches the moon inseparably playing <br>on the plectra of its waves like an encore <br>among lovers mastering each other's bodies <br>like first violins. Or red-winged blackbirds, <br>the woodwinds, or the wavelengths of disparate stars <br>resonating with the eye into lyres, and eagles, and swans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And me? I'm this voice that's been scored <br>by time and space to reveal the contours <br>of a theme interweaving like a melodic river <br>through the mindscape of a dream in counterpoint. <br>And I can hear tides in the rush of the wind <br>breaking in the leaves of the silver Russian olives<br>and the great sorrows of children who died young<br>playing in the rain on the syrinx of the columbine.<br>And strange and eerie from a distant window <br>I can hear the muted suffering of a song <br>whose words I know all too well by heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476759" data-title="Matter is Music. The Atoms Sing. de Patrick White" data-description="Matter is music. The atoms sing. A frog leaps into the water and strings a guitar. Tree rings like odes in the heartwood of the apple. The rain breaks like tears into tiny harps. A gust of stars, a lyric of dust wheeling into galaxies like sym..."></div> </div> </div>

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