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... Of Babes
Great minds have said of me that:
I am moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
I can soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
Without me, life would be an error.
I separate the generations.
I express that which is inexpressible
And on which silence is impossible.
I am the art most nigh to tears and memory.
I am the shorthand of emotion.
I should strike fire from the heart of man,
And a woman I should bring to tears.
I can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I have been called the speech of angels.
What am I?
I am moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
I can soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
Without me, life would be an error.
I separate the generations.
I express that which is inexpressible
And on which silence is impossible.
I am the art most nigh to tears and memory.
I am the shorthand of emotion.
I should strike fire from the heart of man,
And a woman I should bring to tears.
I can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I have been called the speech of angels.
What am I?
Answer
Music.The title is based on "OUT OF THE MOUTHS of babes" suggesting investigation of Quotes.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul Richter
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Without music, life would be an error.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing separates the generations more than music.
Bill Cosby
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Music expresses that which cannot be said, and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
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