Originally Posted by dcuny
Originally Posted by "Edgar Allen Poe"
“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry has indefinite sensations to which end, music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception. Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry. Music without the idea is simply music. Without music or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallour, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment motionless.”
Fun fact: I already had this quote ready to quote in my own answer, but then decided against it.
I guess you remember it from the Alan Parsons album?