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. art, money & sadness
Art is born of humiliation. art
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. love
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. art
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. art, money & sadness
Learn from your dreams what you lack. dreams
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. death
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. history
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. science
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. teacher
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. art, music & poetry
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. best & music
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. death
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' art, nature & science
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. love & poetry
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. love & Valentine's Day
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. health
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. travel
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. music
Now is the age of anxiety. aging
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. music