“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
“At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.”
“I am not what you see and hear.”
“I am a foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.”
“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”