Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
by Josef Pieper
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1988
- Epigraph
- Cantare amantis est
- St. Augustine
Reason speaks in words alone
But love has a song
-Joseph de Maistre - First words
- These meditations define a great arc, spanning the distance from St. Augustine's marvelously formulated insight that "only he who loves can sing" all the way to the anguished cry of Hölderin's ode entitled "Wherefore Poets i... (show all)n a Time of Distress?"
- Quotations
- music is alone in creating a particular kind of silence, though by no means soundlessly . . . It makes a listening silence possible, but a silence that listens to more than simply sound and melody
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Such a statement almost leads us beyond the confines of this world.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Art & Design, Music
- DDC/MDS
- 248.3 — Religion Christian practice & observance Christian experience, practice, life Prayer and private worship
- LCC
- BR115 .A8 .P5413 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity Christianity in relation to special subjects
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- English, Spanish
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