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Euterpe, the Muse of Music

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the music.
   - Ezra Pound

The Great Instrument is uncompleted. The Great Tone has inaudible sound.
   - Lao Tzu
    Tao Te Ching

When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
   - Henry David Thoreau
    Journal, 1857

Musical creativity comprises one of the mind/brain's most basic forms of intelligence - of equal importance with linguistics, logical, mathematical and interpersonal attitudes.
   - Howard Gardener
    Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intellegence

Physicist Fritjof Capra informs us that the integration of recent insights in physics and the life sciences will require "a conceptual shift from structure to rhythm." Theorists now describe atoms in terms of harmonics; molecules vibrate; each substance is "tuned" to a unique pitch; plants and animals undergo cycles of growth and rest; planets fall into resonant orbits; stars oscillate, and galexies whirl a majestic spiral dance.
   - Richard Heinberg
    Music of the (Hemi) Sphere

These are some border pull quotes adorning the latest book by Angeles Arrien,
   "The Nine Muses: A Mythical Path to Creativity.

   Tarcher/Putnam, New York. 2000. ISBN 087477-999-5

I have no connection whatever with Angeles Arrien. This info placed here because the quotes are beautiful and because I recommend this and her other fine books.
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