Quote of the Day (Anna Akhmatova, on How ‘Something Miraculous Burns in Music’)

“Something miraculous burns in music;
as you watch, its edges crystallize.
Only music speaks to me
when others turn away their eyes.”—Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), “Music (For Dmitri Shostakovich),” in The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems, translated by Paul Schmidt (2006)