Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
All good music resembles something.
Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Life is a horizontal fall. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.