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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

From Robert Schumann

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

From Robert Schumann

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

From Robert Schumann

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

From Robert Schumann