≈ The lark caught in the hunter s net began to sing sweeter than ever, as if the melody of its song could fly and the net flee. From the book: The pillars of the earth. From the writer Ken Follet . ≈ Why brother sad music so touches our soul? The Paraguayan poet Manuel Ortíz Guerrero says: God kneaded the world with pain and gave him the whole soul, with all his heart. I find this tragic, it cannot be. Creation, even with its phenomena, is the source and culmination of happiness. Creation gives desire to live, to live! To make sense of it. Anxieties of being happy, of being total, feeling the fullness of eternity.