I don’t write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
I feel like I’ve always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
