[734W-{9-12/67} German Art and German Policy: PW Vol. IV, p.128-129]
[P. 128] {anti-FEUER} “Here the realistic force of Need, there the ideal power of supplying that which is unreachable by the highest demands of Need. The greatest relation, that of King to Folk, embraces all the relations like it; wherefore, when [P. 129] it is a question of bringing all these forces into conjoint action, the stimulus must issue from the King. (…) {FEUER; anti-FEUER} Yet we are not to figure this relation as a chronologic one, but as a synchronistic, an architectonic equipoise. The view that the Useful must first be established, and it will then be time to think about the Beautiful, leads with much certainty to the second tendence never setting in at all; for it is to be anticipated that the first will by then have usurped the whole architecture of the State, as we have styled it, and consequently will have absorbed the store of force reserved for the second. No: both tendences have to work side by side, though always so that the first shall be the motive force, which propounds the problem, the second the conclusive force, which solves it.” [734W-{9-12/67} German Art and German Policy: PW Vol. IV, p.128-129]
[735W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 231-232]
[P. 231] “ … I whispered him [Ludwig Schnorr] the inner cycle of the entranced’s [Tannhaeuser’s] emotions, from the sublimest ecstasy of complete unconsciousness to the gradual wakening of his senses to their present environment, his ear being first to return to life … . The gaze fixed movelessly on [P. 232] high, merely the physiognomic play of features, and finally a gentle slackening of the body’s rigid upright pose, betray the stir of gained rebirth … .” [735W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 231-232]
[736W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 232]
[P. 232] “Continuing to prompt him [Ludwig Schnorr] in undertones, to a like effect, I remained by Schnorr’s side throughout the rehearsal. On his part my hints and very brief directions were answered by a reflecting glance, just as gentle, and of so heartfelt a sincerity that, assuring me of the most marvellous concordance, it opened for myself new insights into my own work; so that through one example, at any rate unparalleled, I became aware how fruitful to both sides may be the affectionate communion of artists differently endowed, if only their gifts are mutually and fully complemental.” [736W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 232]
[737W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 240]
[P. 240] “Have not the most inextricable, most torturing and most dishonouring molestations, cares and humiliations in my life proceeded from that one misunderstanding which, perforce of outer haps of life and outward semblance, held me up to the world, to every social and aesthetic relation contained therein, as just nothing but an ‘opera-composer’ and ‘operatic Kapellmeister’?” [737W-{5/68}Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr: PW Vol. IV, p. 240]
