Structure
The seven songs are:
- Nacht (Night) - text by Carl Hauptmann
- Schilflied (Song amid the reeds) - Nikolaus Lenau
- Die Nachtigall (The nightingale) - Theodor Storm
- Traumgekrönt (Crowned in dream) - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Im Zimmer (Indoors) - Johanes Schlaf
- Liebesode (Ode to Love) - Otto Erich Hartleben
- Sommertage (Summer days) - Paul Hohenberg
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“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in its totality, in its structure: posterity discovers it in the stones with which he built and with which other structures are subsequently built that are frequently better—and so, in the fact that that structure can be demolished and yet still possess value as material.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”
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“... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant—even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion.” Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)