“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.