yea-saying

Updated: May 9, 2025

And in his music there is almost always the consolation of the great forests, the healing of the trees and silences, the cooling hands of the earth, the everlasting yea-saying to love and beauty, the manly resignation, the leave-taking from dreams and life. All this music says, "Song is enough." But no such goodly presence glimmers through the music of Max Reger.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

I, however, am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, if thou be but around me, thou pure, thou luminous heaven! Thou abyss of light! into all abysses do I then carry my beneficent Yea-saying. A blesser have I become and a Yea-sayer: and therefore strove I long and was a striver, that I might one day get my hands free for blessing.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none