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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Quotes By John Keats
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither...
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul...
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should...
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...
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There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have...
Quotes About Death
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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
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I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...