The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that. (Thomas Carlyle)

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that.

Thomas Carlyle

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