"All music is what awakes from you..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.”

“My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.”

“That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”

“A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.”

“Music is the mirror of reality.”

“Architecture is frozen music.[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]”

“One loving heart sets another on fire.”

“I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.”

“It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.”