“Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.”

“Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.”

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”

“The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.”

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“All music is what awakes within uswhen we are reminded by the instruments;It is not the violins or the clarinets -It is not the beating of the drums -Nor the score of the baritone singinghis sweet romanza; not that of the men's chorus,Nor that of the women's chorus -It is nearer and farther than they”