The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.