After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music ‘says’ things about the world, but in specifically musical terms. Any attempt to reproduce these musical statements ‘in our own words’ is necessarily doomed to failure.

Pongileoni se întrecu pe sine în Badineria finală. Axiomele euclidiene se înlănțuiau vesel cu formele de statistică elementară. Aritmetica făcea un chef turbat, iar algebra sărea dezordonat. Muzica se sfîrși într-o orgie de bună dispoziție matematică.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.