Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Franz Liszt

Undated · Zurich

Overview

In a few broken lines Wagner tells Liszt that tears prevent him from reading on: what Liszt has written has struck him like a thunderbolt.

Letter

Let me tell you that tears prevent me from reading on.

Oh, you are unique of your kind!

It has struck me like a thunderbolt. Heavens, what have you written to me there?

You alone know it!

Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 160