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May 19, 2007
a vision of the infinite
Thomas Mann, recounting in his story the 'difficult hour' through which the young Schiller struggled to complete a poem, affirmed, in biblical language, that the finished work contained, not just the artist's humanity, but something of the divinity that the artist was privileged to know:
And it was finished, the labour of suffering...And when it was finished, behold, it was good. And then out of his soul, out of music and idea, new works struggled forth, ringing and gleaming structures, which in sacred form wondrously granted a vision of the infinite source from which they came-just as, in the shell that has been fished out of the sea, the roar of the sea can still be heard.
M. Owen Lee
Posted by amin at May 19, 2007 12:47 AM