10月12日
"The critics are ridiculous-they want to know everything about everything. Such a connoisseur will discourse learnedly about how love or despair impelled you to create this or that work. And if I were to tell tell him how it actually was, namely, that I had composed the piece because it was raining, bacause I had no place to go and I felt sat and empty to the point of going crazy, he wouldn't believe that it hall arose from the rain. As a matter of fact, Beethoven may have written his Funeral March because he had a stomach ache...Critics frequently see in a work all sort of things that its author never even dreamed of putting into it. However, a critic will sometimes help a composer to understand something that came to him as out of the blue in the fever of his inspiration, something that he merely felt, but failed to edit in the light of cold reason and reflection. Such passages unspoiled by reflection are the best part of a work. But there are few critics endowed with true intelligence. Most of them are asses who care nothing for the artist or his works,who want to show off with their fanciful elaborations as singer do. They talk much, but there is no way of sifting anything intelligent out of their talk."
肖邦说评论家是荒谬可笑ridiculous，几乎没有评论家有智慧，他们大部分是驴，对艺术家和作品毫无兴趣，只是想卖弄捕风捉影。他们饶舌的很，可是从他们的话中没法过滤出有用的东西。
他说：如果我告诉他们是经情况，比如，我创作只是当时下雨，没地方去，坐着闷得发慌，他们不会相信。
他说：事实上，贝多芬写葬礼进行曲也许只是肚子痛。
但是，肖邦在给朋友的信中也承认一个事实：
"…I, perhaps unfortunately, have my own ideal, I have served her faithfully (although I have never spoken to her) for half a year; an ideal of which I dream, to which the adagio of my concerto belongs,and which this morning inspired the little waltz I am sending you. Note one place marked X. No one knows this, except you."
就是第二钢协第二乐章中的一个柔板是写给一个"她"的（肖邦第二钢协创作时间早于第一钢协），这个灵感还激发了今天早上写出的一个华尔兹。
这个她就是Constantia Gladkowska,音乐学院的学生。这个华尔兹就是后来出版的Opus70,No.3 in D flat.作品70号，第三，降D.
