George Frideric Handel: Heaven

George Frideric Handel was German, later British Baroque composer. Explore interesting quotes on heaven.
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“His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word "Wonderful," as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.”

George Frideric Handel

Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851) pp. 147-8.
Criticism

Love , Youth , Age , Making love

“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”

George Frideric Handel

Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852) p. 93, citing Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs vol. 1 (1822).
His reply on being asked what his feelings were while writing the "Hallelujah Chorus".

God , Thinking

“Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.”

George Frideric Handel

George Bernard Shaw in Ainslee's Magazine, May 1913.
Criticism

Feeling