I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
Robert SchumannIn order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
Robert SchumannWhen young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
Robert SchumannNature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
Robert Schumann