Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.
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
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
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. - Gian Carlo Menotti
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone. - Gian Carlo Menotti
Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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