A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Maria von Wedemeyer to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pätzig, 8 October 1943 (in Love Letters from Cell 92, tr. John Brownjohn (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995)), 96:
In words one so easily talks at cross purposes, but in music one experiences a communion. That’s what all the words you write are like—like an open hand which I can grasp, which I love and want to cling to.
Johan Huizinga, ‘‘Historical Ideals of Life (1915),’’ in The Course of Civilizations , tr. James S. Holmes & Hans van Marie (Providence:...
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