I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

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.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.