small talk comes from small bones

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

What thou lovest well remains.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

small talk comes from small bones