“Now is the age of anxiety.”
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'