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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pure Music</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pure music tells no clichéd tale <br>concerning God or love or conquering sword; <br>it is composed in that fair higher scale<br>of consciousness where facts may be ignored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Opera is music that’s adulterated<br>by literature we call scenario and libretto; <br>like music we should keep our feelings understated, <br>not trading them like merchants in a Venice ghetto.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Edmund White writes about the way he prefers to write to the accompaniment of music in the NYT, June 18,2001 (“Before as Rendezvous with the muse, First Select the Music”) . He writes: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unlike fiction, music is not about mothers-in-law or failed marriages. Of course opera and ballet and program music can be narrative but only because they are adulterated by literature, the libretto or scenario.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6/18/01,11/6/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q>
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