I attempt from love's sickness to fly.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Christ is made the sure foundation

I plan for all obstacles, I prepare with care, I worry endlesslyfor the road aheadIn all this, I forgetto enjoy small momentsof my present journey

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.