Let Your Deafness No Longer Be A

Let Your Deafness No Longer Be A Secret - Even In Art.

He Who Understand My Music Will Remain Free From The Miseries That The Other Men Are Dragging With Them .

You Ask Me Where I Get My Ideas. That I Cannot Tell You With Certainty. They Come Unsummoned, Directly, Indirectly - I Could Seize Them With My Hands - Out In The Open Air, In The Woods, While Walking, In The Silence Of The Nights, At Dawn, Excited By Moods Which Are Translated By The Poet Into Words, By Me Into Tones That Sound And Roar And Storm About Me Till I Have Set Them Down In Notes.

When I Open My Eyes I Must Sigh, For What I See Is Contrary To My Religion, And I Must Despise The World Which Does Not Know That Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom And Philosophy.

Men Are Not Only Together When They Are With Each Other; Even The Distant And The Dead Live With Us.