Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Artists are the antennae of the race.