Maria Callas- Pace, Pace Mio Dio!

Maria Callas- Pace, Pace mio dio!

(la forza del destino, verdi)

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.”

— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2004

Fra Angelico

“I love how all the constellations are named after Greek heroes It reminds me that even though they’re immortal they, too, have their vices. So tonight I’m going to sit on the fire escape, eating an apple. I’m going to nickname the view Eden. And I’m going to look at those tragic stars with their pagan hearts full of mourning And I’m going to say, ‘What a fall, but what light. What impossible light.’”

— Alysia Harris, Car Rides and the Morning After  (via lollylozz)

Linguistic capacity in the acoustic realm is accordingly much further developed than in the visual sphere. Language reflects what our senses supply. The eye yields incomplete information, which is why colour words are imprecise and cannot attain exactitude through additional description. When language has to express something vague, imprecise, or ostensible, it time and again resorts to words from the optical sphere: imagined (from the Latin imago = picture), illusory (from the Latin lux = light), semblance, etc. The ear, on the other hand, supplies data based on measurement, so language can be more exact when it reflects what has been heard.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, The Third Ear: On Listening to the World

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