Realism and art cannot live together.

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Realism and art cannot live together.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.