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But unheard are sweeter...

But unheard are sweeter...

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats

From his exquisite poem Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Keats pushes all the right buttons for us. The tension between imagination and reality, the perfect and the flawed, the eternal and the transient. In this illustration, a constellation revolves like a record, and the groove spirals toward a waning moon.

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