“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”

“People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.”

“the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sadbats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

“music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light”

“Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...”

“If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?”

“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”