Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.