“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City – the intuition that I had been there already.”

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

"Musical Autobiography" (1950); cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 30.

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