Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Love is the reason you were born.