“Art is born of humiliation.”

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”

“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”

“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”