A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. - Itzhak Peretz

There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!

[Christianity] is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.