Work/music

Famous quotes containing the words work and/or music:

    “Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of being created so as to understand them to some degree.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Poetry
    Exceeding music must take the place
    Of empty heaven and its hymns....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)