I close my eyes and I see unknown countries and strange faces, and whenever I hear the same works the same visions are repeated.

If I speak about this with any of the people down below they say I am mad, but I know that you feel as I do, and I am not afraid that you will laugh at me.

There are musical passages that make me see the sea, blue and boundless, with silvery waves, and this, though I have never seen the ocean; other works bring before me woods and castles, or groups of shepherds with white flocks; with Schubert I always see two lovers sighing at the foot of a linden tree, and certain French composers bring before my mind's eye beautiful women walking among beds of roses, dressed in violet, always violet.

And you, Gabriel, do not you see these things ?" The anarchist assented--yes, music awoke in him also a world of fantastic visions, far more beautiful than reality.
"I remember," went on the priest, "what the Ninth Symphony made me see.

I see it still if I only hum some of its passages.