Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.