Words worth keeping

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Where words leave off, music begins.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.