"Music is so elevated that it is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.”

“Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.”

“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”

“The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.”

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).”

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.”

“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”