The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the transformative power of music and its ability to create new experiences in our lives.
Wendell Berry's quote speaks to the profound impact that music can have on individuals and communities. When music is present, it has the ability to transport us to new realms of existence, imbue our emotions with depth, and connect us to a shared reality that transcends the ordinary. It suggests that during its presence, music not only entertains but also reshapes our perceptions and enriches our lives, creating a temporary yet significant world of its own.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of arts education, one might say, 'As Wendell Berry reminds us, the music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.'
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.
Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
We donβt read and write poetry because itβs cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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