Music is the sweetest thing in the world. I absolutely adore notes. I'll run a thousand paces just to hear one. Often when I'm walking through the hot trees in summer and hear the sound of a piano from an unknown house, I stop in my tracks, ready to die on the spot. I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly... There's something missing when I don't hear music, and when I do, then there's really something missing. That's the best I can say about music.
from "Music" (1902) by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky, in "Masquerade And Other Stories."
from "Music" (1902) by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky, in "Masquerade And Other Stories."
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pigtails:
It's good to hear that you are happy. Accept it and you will be even happier.
suoda:
Gosh... I so few quotes are that incredible. But it really comes across when you are listening to the height of Mozart's Requiem.... such a perfect read...