He never thought of music as separate from the other arts; if a poem or a play fired his imagination,he wanted to make a musical version of it,not by setting the words to music but by translating its feeling into sound.

• 他始终认为音乐是不能和其他艺术分开的：假如有一首诗或一个剧激发了他的想像力，他就要用音乐把它表现出来(不是为它的词谱曲，而是把它的感情转化为音响)。