Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic an…

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spi…

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

My people are American, my time is today:music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.

All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.