Later . . .
Scholium for Doctor Faustus, suggested by
a search in this journal for Robert Mann —
"Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."
— Four Quartets