I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Love is the spirit of light.

There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Many men today are running on adrenaline and not anointing.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.