William Mackey

“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”
― Jeffrey Rosen

“Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.”
― Chaucer Geoffrey