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
+ What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Decay, What Is Love, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The entire social order … is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man’s reputation. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Heart, Love, Mind, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Energy, Europe, Rudeness, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Faces, Public Opinion, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Assured, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ 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
+ Kindness and generosity … form the true morality of human actions. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Generosity, Kindness, Morality, 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
