Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the …

- Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

- Gian Carlo Menotti