Poetry Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. ‘Since when have you liked Wagner?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

— Robert Wilson

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening…

— Oscar Wilde

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop,…

— Andris Nelsons

“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not…

— Walt Whitman

“We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.”

— Marcel Proust

“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread…

— Willa Cather

“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of…

— Leonard Cohen

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some…

— Anton Seidl

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

— Gioachino Rossini