What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Music is what feelings sound like.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.