“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
