I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.