Mytho-Poetic Romantic | Ardent Wagnerian "Only the Strong know Love; only Love grasps Beauty; only Beauty forms Art." - Richard Wagner
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We do not gain faith and courage until we listen to the heartbeat of history and hear that eternally living spring murmuring, which, hidden beneath the rubble of historical civilization, flows on inexhaustibly in its most primal freshness.
Richard Wagner - "Oper und Drama", 1851
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No longer caring to embalm
In dying songs a dead regret,
But like a statue solid-set,
And moulded in colossal calm.
Regret is dead, but love is more
Than in the summers that are flown,
For I myself with these have grown
To something greater than before...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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J. S. Bach - Cantate "Geist und Seele wird verwirret", BWV 35
Sinfonia
Netherlands Bach Society | Jos van Veldhoven
Leo van Doeselaar - organ
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There are individuals on whose faces such baseness and lowliness, such animal-like limitation of the intellect, is stamped, that one wonders how they can still go out with such a face. Yes, there are faces by the mere sight of which one feels defiled.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Oh, who has looked into the stillness of this eye, to whom these sweet lips have opened, of what may he still speak?
Peace of beauty! Divine peace! Whoever has once soothed the raging life and the doubting spirit upon you, how can anything else help him?
Friedrich Hölderlin
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"The Arrival of the Swan Knight"
Richard Wagner - "Lohengrin", Act 1
- Raimund Ritter von Brennerstein Wichera
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Richard Wagner - "Lohengrin"
Vorspiel
Orchestre National de France | Daniele Gatti
Only those who can free themselves from all modern, abstracting, and generalizing forms of perception of the phenomena of immediate life, will understand my Lohengrin.
Richard Wagner, 1851
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It is but the bright world of wonder
that answers to the ecstatic heart,
opening its eternal spaces to me,
richly reaching out a thousand branches
whereon my drunken spirit blissfully sways.
For fable is love’s world, its home, its birthplace...
Friedrich Schiller
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Richard Wagner - "Siegfried", Act 1
Set design by Josef Hoffmann, Bayreuth 1876
"Schmiede, mein Hammer,
ein hartes Schwert!"
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 31, Op. 110 (1821)
III. Adagio, ma non troppo — Arioso dolente (Klagender Gesang) — Fuga. Allegro, ma non troppo — L’istesso tempo di arioso (Ermattet, klagend) — L’inversione della fuga
Maurizio Pollini
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In every given moment, the entire state of all things is firmly and precisely determined by the one immediately preceding it; and so upwards along the stream of time into infinity, and so downwards along it into infinity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The German Heldentenor Albert Niemann (1831-1917)
as Siegmund in Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre"
Bayreuth, 1876
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043
II. Largo ma non tanto
Johan Dalene Janine Jansen
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Whole aeons full of love will be needed to repay the animals
for the services and merits they have rendered us.
Christian Morgenstern, 1911
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The German soprano Tiana Lemnitz as Sieglinde
in Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre", Berlin 1939
"Eine Waffe lass mich dir weisen: o wenn du sie gewännst!
Den hehrsten Helden dürft' ich dich heissen:
dem Stärksten allein ward sie bestimmt."
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And
Unto thine eyes my heart
Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time,
Yea of wood-ways my rime
Found thee and flowers in and of all streams
That sang low burthen, and of roses,
That lost their dew-bowed petals for the dreams
We scattered o'er them passing by.
Ezra Pound
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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 12, Op. 127
I. Maestoso - Allegro
Danish String Quartet
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