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INTERVIEWER
I gather music has been an influence, a source of inspiration.
WHEELOCK
Oh, music is to me the supreme art . . . a revelation of reality. In music you get glimpses of something that you can’t put into words, not even in poetry. In fact, music is a bad influence on a poet because listening to music lulls your critical sense. In the euphoria and exaltation of listening to music you are apt to start a poem, which sounds fine until the music stops, and then it is nothing; your critical sense comes back. Music, perhaps, comes nearest to reality . . . the mathematical relationships within the universe made audible. All the arts tend to that, but in music it seems to succeed.
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| Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rolfe Humphries, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alexander Pope, Marcel Proust, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats |
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