Passion Should Believe Itself Irresistible.

Only A Struggle Twists Sentimentality And Lust Together Into Love.

Love And Understand The Italians, For The People Are More Marvellous Than The Land.

A Critic Has No Right To The Narrowness Which Is The Frequent Prerogative Of The Creative Artist.

The Kingdom Of Music Is Not The Kingdom Of This World; It Will Accept Those Whom Breeding And Intellect And Culture Have Alike Rejected. The Commonplace Person Begins To Play, And Shoots Into The Empyrean Without Effort, Whilst We Look Up, Marvelling How He Has Escaped Us, And Thinking How We Could Worship Him And Love Him, Would He But Translate His Visions Into Human Words, And His Experiences Into Human Actions. Perhaps He Cannot; Certainly He Does Not, Or Does So Very Seldom.

Why Children?' He Asked. 'why Always Children? For Love To End Where It Begins Is Far More Beautiful, And Nature Knows It.