Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
May 28, 1925-May 18, 2012
Requiescat in pace

"Music and poetry have a common domain, from which they draw inspiration and in which they operate: the landscape of the soul."
---- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


"There's no reality except the one contained within us."
---- Hermann Hesse


"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
----Friedrich Nietzsche


"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
----Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
----Novalis


"When words leave off, music begins."
----Heinrich Heine