And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
One must not mistake majority for truth.
Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.