“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
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.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
It is 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.