I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. Robert Walser
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The quote above is by the Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi (風吹けば名無し, 1881-1919). The poem was first published in his collection, The Candle of the Other Shore (1906), and later, in his posthumous book, The Inner Clock (1922). In his collection of poems, The Candle of the Other Shore , the poet wrote: I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible.

Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood.

When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

Source: Masquerade And Other Stories

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