May SartonWhere music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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The poet William Wordsworth went beyond mere philosophy when it came to musing about the power of music. His own love for music and the way it affected him and others around him led him to write, "Where music thundered let the mind be still." He was calling for a time when we would give up the idea that we needed to control what we experienced through our senses. Instead, he said, we should allow our minds to live in harmony with whatever happened around us.
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