Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
Ursula K. Le GuinDo you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
Ursula K. Le GuinWhat good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
Ursula K. Le Guin