A glance at the score shows how sadly the pedagogue might go astray in judgment of the work, without a hearing of it, and furthermore, the imagination of the hearer must be in sympathy with the imagination of the composer, if he would know full enjoyment: for this symphonic poem provokes swooning thoughts, such as come to the partakers of leaves and flowers of hemp; there are the stupefying perfumes of charred frankincense and grated sandal-root.

Quoting Philip Hale on Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherezade (Op. 35), page 318. - Quotes from Music: An Art and a Language - National Schools—Russian, Bohemian and Scandinavian (Ch. XIX)

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