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March 02, 2009
The evening bliss
Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte played by Daniel Barenboim
"People usually complain that music is so ambiguous; that they are doubtful as to what they should think when they hear it, whereas everyone understands words. For me, it is just the reverse. And that is not for while speeches but for single words also: they seem to me so ambiguous, so indefinite, so open to misunderstanding in comparison with real music which fills one’s soul with a thousand better things than words. To me, the music I love does not express thoughts too indefinite to be put into words, but too definite…If you ask me what I thought (in connection with one or another of the Songs without Words), I must say: the song itself as it stands. If, with one or the other of them, I had a specific word or words in mind, I should not like to give them those titles, because words do not mean the same to one person as they mean to another; only the song says the same thing, arouses the same feeling, in one person as in another—a feeling that, however cannot be expressed in the same words…The word remains ambiguous, but in music we understand each other rightly. -- Mendelssohn in a letter (source)
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The Drunken Universe - an Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry.
The Persian poetry ends up being more of a set of mind bending puzzles than anything else:
Nonexistence
within existence
is my rule
getting lost
in getting lost
my religion.
(Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani)
Posted by claudia