All music has to speak in some form or other.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.