Whatever
the accomplishment, we must always treat with tenderness the efforts of those
who strive honestly to express the music that is within them; for the gift of
conception is certainly superior to the gift of expression, and it is not
unreasonable to suppose that the men and women who scrape for the harmonies that
never come while the traffic goes thundering by have as great a possession,
though fated never to impart it, as the masters whose facile eloquences
enchants thousands to listen.
“Street
Music” (E1 28)
December
20, 1905 “Street Music” was published in the National Review
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