Every Great Inspiration Is But An Experiment.

If A Poet Knows More About A Horse Than He Does About Heaven, He Might Better Stick To The Horse, And Some Day The Horse May Carry Him Into Heaven.

In Some Century To Come, When The School Children Will Whistle Popular Tunes In Quarter-tones--when The Diatonic Scale Will Be As Obsolete As The Pentatonic Is Now--perhaps Then These Borderland Experiences May Be Both Easily Expressed And Readily Recognized. But Maybe Music Was Not Intended To Satisfy The Curious Definiteness Of Man. Maybe It Is Better To Hope That Music May Always Be Transcendental Language In The Most Extravagant Sense

For The Man Of Talent Affects To Call His Transgressions Of The Laws Of Sense Trivial And To Count Them Nothing Considerd With His Devotion To His Art.

The Word 'beauty' Is As Easy To Use As The Word 'degenerate.' Both Come In Handy When One Does Or Does Not Agree With You

Every Great Inspiration Is But An Experiment.