It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity where energies flow smoothly in one direction there will be much doing but no music. (Eric Hoffer)

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity where energies flow smoothly in one direction there will be much doing but no music.

Eric Hoffer

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