For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

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.

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.