Only The Pure In Heart Can Make

In The Country It Seems As If Every Tree Said To Me 'holy! Holy!' Who Can Ever Express The Ecstasy Of The Woods! Almighty One, In The Woods I Am Blessed. Happy Every One In The Woods. Every Tree Speaks Through Thee. O God! What Glory In The Woodland.

Richard Wagner Commenting On The Music Of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He Was A Titan, Wrestling With The Gods.

Music Is The Mediator Between The Spiritual And The Sensual Life. Although The Spirit Be Not Master Of That Which It Creates Through Music, Yet It Is Blessed In This Creation, Which, Like Every Creation Of Art, Is Mightier Than The Artist.

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

No Friend Have I. I Must Live By Myself Alone; But I Know Well That God Is Nearer To Me Than Others In My Art, So I Will Walk Fearlessly With Him.