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