The ideal medium for poetry, to my mind, and the most direct means
of social `usefulness' for poetry, is the theatre. In a play of
Shakespeare you get several levels of significance. For the simplest
auditors there is the plot, for the more thoughtful the character and
conflict of character, for the more literary the words and phrasing, for
the more musically sensitive the rhythm, and the auditors of greater
sensitiveness and understanding a meaning which reveals itself gradually.
And I do not believe that the classification of audience is so clear-cut
as this; but rather that the sensitiveness of every auditor is acted upon
by all these elements at once, though in different degrees of
consciousness. At none of these levels is the auditor bothered by the
presence of that which he does not understand, or by the presence of that
in which he is not interested.
-- The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism --
- T(homas) S(tern) Eliot 1888-1965 English. Poet, Critic
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Close your eyes as I take you on the experience of my life, the
experience of hearing many different sounds from many different cultures
from around the world. We hear the energy, the sound of music, the sound
of someone saying, "I love you." -
Stevie Wonder 1951- American. Singer, Musician, Songwriter
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everywhere music, if you can only reach it.
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