“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
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“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.”
Source: The compleat violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qC0xAQAAIAAJ, Summit Books, 1 April 1986, p. 95
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