Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.