Charles Ives Quote

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater (ed. 1962)