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“I can whistle almost the whole of the Fifth Symphony, all four movements, and with it I have solaced many a whining hour to sleep. It answers all my questions, the noble, mighty thing, it is “green pastures and still waters” to my soul. Indeed, without music I should wish to die. Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is. I find that lately more and more my fingers itch for a piano, and I shall not spend another winter without one. Last night I played for about two hours, the first time in a year, I think, and though most everything is gone enough remains to make me realize I could get it back if I had the guts. People are so dam lazy, aren’t they? Ten years I have been forgetting all I learned so lovingly about music, and just because I am a boob. All that remains is Bach. I find that I never lose Bach. I don’t know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.”
― Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
― Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.”
― U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
― U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
“While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.”
― The Big Stick, 1905–1909: 1905–1907 (Volume 5)
― The Big Stick, 1905–1909: 1905–1907 (Volume 5)
“Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”
― Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
― Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
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