“I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell”
“A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest
“The purest way to communicate the human condition is through the beauty of music.”
From an interview in “My Favorite Song: Edward W. Hardy of 'The Woodsman'” https://12e3365e-df7a-3f83-6964-dce78c2d6819.filesusr.com/ugd/118bef_84bd82e1c6e1489da21ac1822508662c.pdf NewYork.com (2016 May 13), “‘Why we joined the union’ - Edward W. Hardy” https://www.local802afm.org/allegro/articles/new-members-feb-2020-4/ Allegro Magazine - Local 802 AFM (2020 Feb 4)
Robert Browning. (1903)
Context: One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”
blogs.legacyrecordings.com (February 5, 2008)
2007, 2008
