Beethoven Variations Quotes

“Tomorrow
is a mystery, today is a gift from God.
Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

-In the Lydian Mode”
― Ruth Padel, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

“What we forget makes us who we are.
Most of our life vanishes in the swirls
of the brain's mysterious mirror
but you can't stop looking back. At scarlet pearls
strewn through the desert, footprints of blood,
your journey away from your love.

- India Dreams”
― Ruth Padel, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

“The earth moves if you get it right.”
― Ruth Padel, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

“Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?”
― Ruth Padel, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life