Liebesträume

Dreams of Love by Franz Liszt

"Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: 'We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.' Need-love says of a woman 'I cannot live without her'; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection--if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all." -- C.S. Lewis

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Liebestraum nr. 1: Hohe Liebe (Love Dream no. 1: Exalted Love)

"And I, who was drawing near to the end of all desires, raised to its utmost, even as I ought, the ardor of my longing. Bernard was signing to me with a smile to look upward, but I was already of myself such as he wished; for my sight, becoming pure, was entering more and more through the beam of the lofty Light which in Itself is true." -- Dante

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Liebestraum nr. 2: Seliger Tod (Love Dream no. 2: Blessed Death)

"I was dead, and right content. I lay in my coffin, with my hands folded in peace. The knight, and the lady I loved, wept over me. Her tears fell on my face." -- George MacDonald

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Liebestraum nr. 3: O Lieb, So Lang du Lieben Kannst (Love Dream no. 3: O Love, So Long as Love You Can)

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." -- J.R.R. Tolkien