“Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king…
And the time has come.”

Quotes from his operas, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hans Sachs, Act 2, Scene 4
Original: (de) Mein Kind, für den ist alles verloren,
und Meister wird der in keinem Land;
denn wer als Meister geboren,
der hat unter Meistern den schlimmsten Stand.

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29

Central
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)

The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

Narrator
A Child is Born (1942)

Source: Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Preface to Selected Poems, André Deutsch Ltd, London, 1983, ISBN 0233975039
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