We Shall Not Cease From

Old Men Ought To Be Explorers.

It Is Self-evident That St. Louis Affected Me More Deeply Than Any Other Environment Has Ever Done. I Feel That There Is Something In Having Passed One's Childhood Beside The Big River, Which Is Incommunicable To Those People Who Have Not. I Consider Myself Fortunate To Have Been Born Here, Rather Than In Boston, Or New York, Or London.

Bad Poets Imitate, Good Poets Steal.

Music Heard So Deeply That It Is Not Heard At All, But You Are The Music While The Music Lasts.

The Progress Of An Artist Is A Continual Self-sacrifice, A Continual Extinction Of Personality.