Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.