Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) Quotes

“Joy that true did prove,
Fare you well, my faithful love.
Life and death must part
Heart is torn from heart -
Wait for me in higher sphere -
There is no second life down here.”
― Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die Tote Stadt, The Dead City: Opera In Three Acts Founded On G. Rodenbach's Das Trugbild (1921)

“A dream has dashed my dream to earth,
A dream of crude realities has killed
The dream of phantasy and sweet deception.
Such dreams are sent us by our dead
If we live to much with and in them.
How far should we give way to grief,
How far dare we, without disaster?
Harrowing conflict of the heart!”
― Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die Tote Stadt, The Dead City: Opera In Three Acts Founded On G. Rodenbach's Das Trugbild (1921)

“Be silent, hollow choir of hells,
Harsh sounds that echo through the night!
Ye wept when we stood by her grave —
Now ye reprove my conscience.
Deliver me, ye bronze confessors!
Bitter the pleasures I am tasting;
Grimly two-sided joys.”
― Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die Tote Stadt, The Dead City: Opera In Three Acts Founded On G. Rodenbach's Das Trugbild (1921)

“Clouds may loom above,
Hold me fast, my faithful love.
Lie close on my heart,
Dying cannot part.
When the hour comes you must go.
You will rise again, I know.”
― Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die Tote Stadt, The Dead City: Opera In Three Acts Founded On G. Rodenbach's Das Trugbild (1921)