"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it's the artist's job to challenge that.

"I don't know what I'd do without music in my life."

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."

大海不拒绝水流，所以成其大；高山不拒绝石块，所以成其高。