There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.