"Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”

“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.”

“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”

“... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.”

“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”

“After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.”

“There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.”

“The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.”

“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.”