Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
In plain words
Sometimes you'll have so many ideas in your head that your hands can't keep up.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Early Letters of Robert Schumann (1888 English edition of his own letters), p. 82 — Wikiquote sourced section. His own correspondence in a named letters edition, not a quote-book compilation.
- Early Letters of Robert Schumann (published 1888)
- 1830s
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