He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.
Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.
Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.
The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.
Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.