To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.