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.

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

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Either move or be moved.