Meseria literară n-are sens; are sens o viață din care poate răsări literatura.

Darul cel târziu nu are putere de dar.

Following the bel canto era, a more direct, forceful style was rapidly popularized by Giuseppe Verdi, beginning with his biblical opera Nabucco. This opera, and the ones that would follow in Verdi's career, revolutionized Italian opera, changing it from merely a display of vocal fireworks, with Rossini's and Donizetti's works, to dramatic story-telling. Verdi's operas resonated with the growing spirit of Italian nationalism in the post-Napoleonic era, and he quickly became an icon of the patriotic movement for a unified Italy. In the early 1850s, Verdi produced his three most popular operas: Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata. The first of these, Rigoletto, proved the most daring and revolutionary. In it, Verdi blurs the distinction between the aria and recitative as it never before was, leading the opera to be "an unending string of duets". La traviata was also novel. It tells the story of courtesan, and is often cited as one of the first "realistic" operas,[citation needed] because rather than featuring great kings and figures from literature, it focuses on the tragedies of ordinary life and society. After these, he continued to develop his style, composing perhaps the greatest French Grand Opera, Don Carlos, and ending his career with two Shakespeare-inspired works, Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century. These final two works showed Verdi at his most masterfully orchestrated, and are both incredibly influential, and modern. In Falstaff, Verdi sets the preeminent standard for the form and style that would dominate opera throughout the twentieth century. Rather than long, suspended melodies, Falstaff contains many little motifs and mottos, that, rather than being expanded upon, are introduced and subsequently dropped, only to be brought up again later. These motifs never are expanded upon, and just as the audience expects a character to launch into a long melody, a new character speaks, introducing a new phrase. This fashion of opera directed opera from Verdi, onward, exercising tremendous influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten.[16]

Înţelepciunea este însăşi viaţa în mişcare. – Mircea Florian

,,Fii atent! Nu toate proverbele îţi dăruiesc înţelepciune, unele îţi ispitesc înţelepciunea.,, – Gavriil Stiharul

Zece înţelepţi nu pot să descurce ceea ce un nebun a încurcat. – proverb românesc

,,Înţelepciunea e a ta numai când o dai altuia, altfel ea este numai în tine.,, – Nicolae Iorga

Cei mai mulți oameni folosesc muzica precum o canapea ; ei vor să își facă o pernă din ea, să fie relaxați de ea și să fie consolați de ea pentru stresul din viața de fiecare zi. Dar adevărata muzică nu a fost niciodată concepută ca un suporific. Aaron Copland