Saturday, October 8, 2011


Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

-- John Keats
(in The Music-Lover's Birthday Book,
edited by Alden Rockwell Murphy)

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