Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
romantic · german-letters
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert · 1797–1828 · Austrian
Vienna's brief flame. The letters and notes are as darkly compressed as the songs: love turning to sorrow, and the question of who comes after Beethoven.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
I still hope to be able to make something of myself, but who can do anything after Beethoven?