The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.