The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.
