...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but h… - E. M. Forster

The Valkyries are symbols not only of courage but of intelligence; they represent the human spirit snatching its opportunity while the going is good, and one of them even finds time to love. Bruennhilde's last song hymns the recurrence of love, and since it is the privilege of art to exaggerate she goes even further, and proclaims the love which is eternally triumphant, and feeds upon freedom and lives.

"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! "

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.