“Leaves I twist between my fingers,
closing my eyes as thoughts drift.
Into the momentous winds of time,
the red-orange will soon afloat.
For Autumn hues are unravelling
through the waning summer days.
‘Tis the season of yearning passion
and lyric to my heart and mind.
[Ever Changing Rhythms of Life]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”
“Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator;
I'm far behind, I feel it more and more.
Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution!
Be thou no motley, jingling fool!
It needs but little elocution
To speak good sense by reason's rule.
It ye've a message to deliver,
Need ye for words be hunting ever?”
Source: Faust
“Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal.”
Source: The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
“k Heb jarenlang achter mijn boeken zitten zweten;
en ‘k weet wel veel maar ik wil alles weten.”
Source: Faust
“Tú eres tu propia barrera… sáltala desde adentro.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to let Hitler, or even Wagner himself, ruin for her).”
Source: Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
“Bare and glistening blooms do reach,
longing to connect with my being.
Setting my feminine spirit alight
in a tightly wound body of darkness.
The promise of fortuitous fruit,
arouses my thirst to conquer
a world of madness and dark rule,
with womanhood as my stealth.
[Spring’s Touch]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall