Wednesday, February 1, 2012

they bless me






I spend all my morning with the muses;  
- and they bless me also in my walks.

Compelled to contemplate a lasting malady, born with an ardent and lively temperament, susceptible to the diversions of society, I was obliged at an early date to isolate myself and live a life of solitude....For me there can be no recreation in human society, refined conversation, mutual exchange of thoughts and feelings; only so far as necessity compels may I give myself to society,—I must live like an exile. 




~ from the Ludwig van Beethoven journals
with thanks to Roderick Maclver


portrait by 
Joseph Karl Stieler




0 comments: