Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards
Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.