[651W-{2/57} On Liszt’s Symphonic Poems: PW Vol. III, p. 247]
[P. 247] “I ask now, whether March or Dance, with all the mental pictures of those acts, can supply a worthier motive of Form than, for instance, a mental picture (Vorstellung) of the main and characteristic features in the deeds and sufferings of an Orpheus, a Prometheus, and so forth?” [651W-{2/57} On Liszt’s Symphonic Poems: PW Vol. III, p. 247]
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[P. 248] “We must place our doubt, then, less in Music’s capability (for things un-dreamt have been already compassed in the older cramping forms) than in the artist’s possession of the needful poetico-musical attribute, the gift of beholding the poetic subject in such a way as to serve the musician for moulding his intelligible musical forms. And here in very deed resides the secret and the problem; its solution could be reserved for none but a highly-gifted chosen man, who, whilst out and out musician, is at like time out and out a seer (anschauender Dichter).” [652W-{2/57} On Liszt’s Symphonic Poems: PW Vol. III, p. 248]
[653W-{2/57} On Liszt’s Symphonic Poems: PW Vol. III, p. 249]
[P. 249] “ … the Dramatist must lay hands on quite other means than the Musician; he stands much nearer to the life of everyday, and is intelligible solely when the idea with which he presents us is clothed in an Action whose various component ‘moments’ so closely resemble some incident of that life, that each spectator fancies he is also living through it. The Musician, on the contrary, looks quite away from the incidents of ordinary life, entirely upheaves its details and its accidentals, and sublimates whatever lies within it to its quintessence of emotional-content – to which alone can Music give a voice, and Music only.” [653W-{2/57} On Liszt’s Symphonic Poems: PW Vol. III, p. 249]
[654W-{4/7/58}Letter to Mathilde Wesendonck: SLRW, p. 382-383]
[P. 382] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “… people may … call it objective if the individual never succeeds in absorbing the object, i.e. the [P. 383] world (which can be achieved only by the most active fellow-suffering), but instead simply imagines the object, and loses himself in it by contemplating and perceiving it rather than by sympathizing with it (for in that way he would become the world itself – and this identification of the individual with the world is the business of the saint, not of the Faust poet, who has ended up as a model for philistines to emulate) … .” [654W-{4/7/58}Letter to Mathilde Wesendonck: SLRW, p. 382-383]
[655W-{4/7/58}Letter to Mathilde Wesendonck: SLRW, p. 383]
[P. 383] {FEUER} “He is a fool who would seek to win the world and a feeling of peace from outside himself! (…) Only inside, within us, deep down does salvation dwell!“ [655W-{4/7/58}Letter to Mathilde Wesendonck: SLRW, p. 383]
