Ruskin Wished

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    It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art ... consists.
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)