J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

  J. M. Coetzee

  Growing Up, Passion, Soul

  J. M. Coetzee (2002). “Youth”, Harvill Secker

• His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Song, Lying, Air

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.4, Random House

• Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

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