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

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

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

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.

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

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.