From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.