爱伦坡对诗和音乐的见解大合我意。第一段摘自他给诗人LOWELL的信。

Music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of Poetry. The vagueness of exultation aroused by a sweet air (which should strictly be indefinite and never too strongly suggestive) is precisely what we should aim at in poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe

Indefinitiveness is an element of true music - I mean of true musical expression. Give to it any undue decision - imbue it with any very determinate tone - and you deprive it, at once, of its ethereal, its intrinsic and essential character. You dispel its luxury of dream. You dissove the atmosphere of the mystic upon which it floats. You exhaust it of its breath of faery. - Edgar Allan Poe