I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.
I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
