Thursday, April 08, 2010

The Conflicted Soul

"My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law."

-- Robert Schumann



In 1828, at age 18, Robert Schumann left school, and after a tour, during which he met Heinrich Heine in Munich, he went to Leipzig to study law. In 1829 his law studies continued in Heidelberg.  And we all know where that went!

I will never achieve the greatness of Schumann, but then, I hope not to end up in a lunatic asylum, either.

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