Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Of beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Edmund Wilson To The Finland Station (1940)


Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.