If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
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There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
Interpretation
What this quote means
Music reveals profound truths about human experience that are inaccessible through reason alone.
Robert Browning suggests that music has the unique ability to convey truths about life and emotions that are difficult to express through mere words or logical thought. This emphasizes the power of art, particularly music, as a medium for understanding deeper aspects of the human condition that resonate universally.
Themes
MusicTruthArtEmotionHuman Experience
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the healing power of creativity, one might say, 'As Robert Browning put it, there is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music.'
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How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!
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