Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.