"Life is earnest - and always has..." - Quote by Richard Wagner

“One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”

“Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.”

“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”

“Like madness, is the glory of this life.”

“For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.”

“Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.”

“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”

“We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.”

“Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.”