Now is the age of anxiety. aging
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. health
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. music
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
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. death
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
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
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
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
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' art, nature & science
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. teacher
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. best & music
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. music
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. art
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. death
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. art, music & poetry
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. travel
Learn from your dreams what you lack. dreams
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. history
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. love & poetry