“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“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.”

“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

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

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.”