Dualism of the Spirit
When I am with you, lady, your compassionate and sweet help scatters from my heart through my extremities the spirits of life; and so my soul, prevented from its natural activity by sudden joy, departs from me. Then, at your harsh parting, the scattered spirits return to my heart in such excess that the aid they bring threatens to be fatal. If I see your returning to me, I feel them once more departing from my heart, and so I see that both help and hurt are equally fatal torment: to have each half the time is, for one who loves too much, to live always in the worst state possible.
Madrigal, written by Michelangelo for Vittoria Colonna, 1544
♫ - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Op. 41, composed in 1878
for Flickriver - Sophie Shapiro
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Dualism of the Spirit
When I am with you, lady, your compassionate and sweet help scatters from my heart through my extremities the spirits of life; and so my soul, prevented from its natural activity by sudden joy, departs from me. Then, at your harsh parting, the scattered spirits return to my heart in such excess that the aid they bring threatens to be fatal. If I see your returning to me, I feel them once more departing from my heart, and so I see that both help and hurt are equally fatal torment: to have each half the time is, for one who loves too much, to live always in the worst state possible.
Madrigal, written by Michelangelo for Vittoria Colonna, 1544
♫ - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Op. 41, composed in 1878
for Flickriver - Sophie Shapiro
.