You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.