Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

The work of creation is never without travail.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.