When asked what he had in mind while writing a wordless song, Felix Mendelssohn replied: ‘The song, just as it stands. Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not want to tell anyone, because the same word means different things to different people. Only the song says the same thing, arouses the same feeling, in everyone — a feeling that can’t be expressed in words.’

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