"The Less I Like Poetry."

A mere paragraph, possibly solicited by the volume compiler.

Bates writes: "The older I get the less I like poetry. I do not say I dislike poetry. Only that the older I get the less I like it, and the more I find that music takes its place. It becomes clearer to me that the composer begins where the poet ends. Keats soars heavenward, but Schubert has already gone beyond him into some celestial stratosphere."

In Spice of Life (London:, compiled by J. Thurston Thrower, 1950, p. 89, attached)