Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.