Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, The Reading Journals, tagged Bernard of Clairvaux, honey, Music, song, the name of Jesus on November 28, 2017| 1 Comment »
Jesus mel in ore,
in aure melos,
in corde jubilus:
Jesus to me is
honey in the mouth,
music in the ear,
a song in the heart.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Translation from Bernard of Clairvaux, The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: 2: On the Song of Songs I, trans. Kilian Walsh, intro. Corneille Halflants, Cistercian Fathers Series: Number 4 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971), 105-13.
Posted in Music, Observations, tagged alphonse de lamartine, heart, heartmusic, literature, Music on October 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“Music is the literature of the heart; it begins where speech ends.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
Posted in The Daily Poems, tagged Juhan Liiv, Music on June 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
It must be somewhere, the original harmony,
somewhere in great nature, hidden.
Is it in the furious infinite,
in distant stars’ orbit,
is it in the sun’s scorn,
in a tiny flower, in treegossip,
in heartmusic’s mothersong
or in tears?
It must be somewhere, immortality,
somewhere the original harmony must be found:
how else could it infuse
the human soul,
that music?
Juhan Liiv
trans. by H.L. Hix & Jüri Talvet
in Poetry (June 2011)
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