All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.