„The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.“
George Saintsbury The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1923) p. 258.
Praise
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„Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.“
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803 - 1873
— Henry Ward Beecher American clergyman and activist 1813 - 1887
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 390
Kontext: Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
„Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.“
— Wole Soyinka Nigerian writer 1934
Quelle: The Lion and the Jewel
„The very essence of romance is uncertainty.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Variante: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937
Fiction, Hypnos (1922)
Kontext: Among the agonies of these after days is that chief of torments — inarticulateness. What I learned and saw in those hours of impious exploration can never be told — for want of symbols or suggestions in any language. I say this because from first to last our discoveries partook only of the nature of sensations; sensations correlated with no impression which the nervous system of normal humanity is capable of receiving. They were sensations, yet within them lay unbelievable elements of time and space — things which at bottom possess no distinct and definite existence. Human utterance can best convey the general character of our experiences by calling them plungings or soarings...
„[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Quelle: Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 104
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
Canto II, I
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
— Sudhir Ruparelia Ugandan businessman 1956
Interview http://www.ventures-africa.com/2013/04/africas-newest-billionaire-ugandan-tycoon-builds-1-1b-fortune-from-the-ground-up/ with Ventures Africa (2013)
„The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.“
— Ralph Vaughan Williams English composer 1872 - 1958
National Music (1934) p. 123.
— Thomas Moore Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779 - 1852
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
Non copre abito vil la nobil luce,
E quanto è in lei d'altero e di gentile;
E fuor la maesta regia traluce
Per gli atti ancor de l'esercizio umile.
Canto VII, stanza 18 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
— John Frusciante American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer 1970
On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary
„Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Helas! http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/helas.html, l. 12-14 (1881)
— John Steinbeck, buch Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
