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The poet Saphir wrote of him: “Liszt knows no rule, no form, no style. He creates his own. With him the bizarre becomes genial, the strange comes to seem necessary.”<ref>de Pourtalès, ''Franz Liszt'', p. 73.</ref> Scorpio is a powerful creative sign. It is a magnetic field wherein the forces of generation are operative. Liszt did have rules, form and style, but he was capturing this form on a higher level of the cosmos than had ever been captured before. Therefore, to man’s consciousness it appeared that he was breaking rules. Actually he was spiraling to a higher level of different rules, different forms, different laws. | The poet Saphir wrote of him: “Liszt knows no rule, no form, no style. He creates his own. With him the bizarre becomes genial, the strange comes to seem necessary.”<ref>de Pourtalès, ''Franz Liszt'', p. 73.</ref> Scorpio is a powerful creative sign. It is a magnetic field wherein the forces of generation are operative. Liszt did have rules, form and style, but he was capturing this form on a higher level of the cosmos than had ever been captured before. Therefore, to man’s consciousness it appeared that he was breaking rules. Actually he was spiraling to a higher level of different rules, different forms, different laws. | ||
His was a new thesis. The world’s ways were an antithesis of it. The synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis became a new form of music which was imitated by the world’s greatest composers, including Wagner. | His was a new thesis. The world’s ways were an antithesis of it. The synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis became a new form of music which was imitated by the world’s greatest composers, including [[Wagner]]. | ||
Clara Schumann said of Liszt, “He can be compared to no other virtuoso. He is the only one of his kind. He arouses fright and astonishment, though he is a very lovable artist.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> | Clara Schumann said of Liszt, “He can be compared to no other virtuoso. He is the only one of his kind. He arouses fright and astonishment, though he is a very lovable artist.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> | ||