"Who knows what the new century holds for music? I predict that we will bury most of the musical modernism of the 20th…"

"I have always heard in the music what I am finding out from the books: the man was a tyrant who beat his musicians wi…"

"When an idealist is 20 he thinks he can make a real difference in the world. At 30 he still thinks so but realizes th…"

"A college education was for me life-changing. It gave me a life-long passion for reading and learning. It challenged …"

"It is much easier to prejudge than to judge. It saves a lot of work to write about all the intellectual baggage one b…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew, Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate; No beggar thou that thou for al…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"