“All ancient poetry leads to Greek poetry, harmonious life.”

Original: Toute poésie antique aboutit à la poésie grecque, Vie harmonieuse. — Rimbaud views Greek poetry as a high point of harmony before the later history of European verse. · Letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871 (French)

• Greece
• Harmony
• Poetry

“I present you here with such numbers best fitting your innated Harmony, and I hope not unworthy your Patronage.”

Music offered as numbers matched to a patron's native sense of harmony · Dedication to Sir Henry Fanshawe, First Set of English Madrigals, 1613

• Art
• Harmony
• Music

“Between order and disorder there reigns a delightful moment.”

Original: Entre l'ordre et le désordre règne un moment délicieux. — The most creative and pleasurable state may exist between rigid order and complete chaos. · Cahiers (French)

• Balance
• Creativity
• Harmony

“Now I wake each morning inwardly cheerful, and remain so for the whole day, ready to bathe everyone who approaches in the light of my spirit and fill them with joy until they fall into harmony with me.”

Original: Teraz ja budzę się co rano i wraz rozweselony jestem wnętrznie i już na cały dzień taki zostaję, gotów każdego, co się przybliży, oblać jasnością ducha i rozradować go, aż się do harmonii ze mną ułoży. — A striking expression of spiritual joy as something that can be shared with others. · Letter to his mother, 16 April 1844 (Polish)

• Companionship
• Harmony
• Joy

“A great part of the grace of this, I confess, lay in action; yet can no action ever be gracious, where the decency of the language, and ingenious structure of the scene, arrive not to make up a perfect harmony.”

Insisting that dramatic excellence requires the unity of language and structure with performance · Preface, To the Reader of The Devil's Law Case

• Craft
• Drama
• Harmony

“Three months spent among the most beautiful scenes of nature were a great lesson for me. I saw the harmony that unites everything and bathes it in one colour.”

Original: Trzy miesiące przepędzone pośród najpiękniejszych widoków przyrodzenia były wielką dla mnie nauką. Uważałem harmoniją, która wszystko łączy i nalewa jednym kolorem. — Nature leads him towards an artistic ideal of unity and harmony. · Letter to his mother, 20 October 1835 (Polish)

• Art
• Harmony
• Nature

“Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.”

Reflection on the union of music and poetry · Dedication to The First Book of Songs or Ayres, 1597

• Harmony
• Music
• Poetry

“Wishing unto your Honour a continual harmony, composed of a comfortable delight of body, goods, and good name, with a daily increase of honour.”

A graceful wish for balanced well-being in health, prosperity, reputation and status, framed in musical terms · Dedication to Arthur Lord Chichester, Second Set of Madrigals (1618)

• Harmony
• Prosperity
• Wish