"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light."

"There can be no forced inspiration."

"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer."

"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky."

"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."

"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."

"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty."

"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness."

"If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another."

"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."

"Dreams are our only geography—our native land."

"Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility."

"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."

"A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons."

"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift."

"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."

"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door."

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."

"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."

"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."

"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps."

"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."

"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Great poets are great copy editors."

"There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers."

"To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love."

"There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection."

"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."

"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."