"Yes, Chopin must be called a genius in the fullest meaning of the term; he is not merely a virtuoso, he is also a poet; he can bring to life for us the poetry of his soul; he is a tone poet, and nothing equals the enjoyment he gives us when he sits at the piano and improvises. Then he is not a Pole, a Frenchman or a German, he betrays a far loftier origin; one then notices that he is from the land of Mozart, Raphael, Goethe; his fatherland is the dreamland of poetry."

-Heinrich Heine