It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...