Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all are the same.

(Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping page 194)

Some broad agreement exists that the right hemisphere is more in tune with sadness, and less with anger, than the left hemisphere. . . . It seems to me a possibility that those emotions which are related to bonding and empathy . . . are preferentially treated by the right hemisphere, as one would expect; . . .

(Iain Mc Gilchrist: The Master & his Emissary pages 62-63)

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.

Given that the right hemisphere is strongly linked to all forms of creativity, it is not a huge leap of logic to suggest that much great art, including poetry and song, will inevitably be tinged with sadness and be rooted in empathy for the sufferings of all humanity.

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