I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.