"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…"

"Now we all know that new recordings carry Danger signs all over them. Danger: fantastic sound can subvert your judgem…"

"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…"