Musicality in Speech.

[tun]

I think Musicality is essential in Poetry. But what do we mean by Musicality? Musicality does not begin with rhyme or meter or cadence. It begins with the perception of the innate musicality of words as original forms that order time and space and with the pleasure derived therefrom in the speaker as the sensational creator of meaningful order. The 'Music' is an innate property of the speaker. It is not a result of the employment of manner, mode, device or technique. It is the feeling of being. It is the love of speech and of speaking - in a certain real way, which gratifies the speaker in some way or in some other way at the time. Words are not like numbers. They are not final units of meaning nor are they finally measurable. They are events in the Spiritual life. They are nodes in a tangled matrix of connection that stretches from here and now and into eternity. Hence, they are subtle and not all of their properties and influences and interactions and connections and relations to each other are consciously knowable. But they can be felt by the adept. They can be known intuitively by the Initiated, by the proficient - by the Musician. Speaking happens after Listening. It is the manner of listening and receiving (being) which conditions the original Musicality of speech. One can only say the things which one can hear.