I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.