Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

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.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

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