What did Madame de Stael mean by: All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive. - Madame de Stael Writer · France Copy
+ We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Death, Hands, Love, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Broken Heart, Improbable, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Charity, Fountainhead, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Contemporary, Posterity, Stranger, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Ethics, Guides, Morality, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Feelings, Happiness, Motivational, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Weakness, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Heart, Love, Mind, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski Conductor · United Kingdom
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter
