The search for song texts was his entire reason for reading poetry; whatever his appreciation of literary merit, he placed poems that were not composable into a different category than those that were amenable to music—his music.—Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs, 2000
… music expressive of a feeling is clearly composable by one who is not experiencing that feeling and has perhaps never experienced it …—Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998
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