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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

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Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

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Born: October 30, 1885
Died: November 1, 1972 (aged 87)
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