#lingering

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

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#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

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#gone #here #i #into #light