“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.”

“Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.”

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”

“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to enrich the spirit; that novels have been conceived at the very least, to entertain us; and even, optimistically, that sociological solutions are a guide to solving something. Viewing the situation calmly, I realized that the first (poetry) was capable of impoverishing the richest spirit, the second of boring the most joyful, the third of confusing the most lucid.”

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

“Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.”