Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.