Music, art and literature Quotes

It requires more than mere genius to be an author

“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing

A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate

The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

When you sell a man a book you do not sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue.