Music had troubled him many times.
But music was not articulate.

It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them.

And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute.

Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Yes; there had been things in his boyhood that he had not understood.
He understood them now.