Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Men expect too much, do too little.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.