It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.