That letter — how mournful it has made me! The demon moves from out one heart into the other. How subjugate it? O we poor creatures! We are not our own. Demon, change to god!
That letter has made me mournful. Yesterday I wrote to our friend. She will be sure to come in, before long.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 51