See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Technique is the test of sincerity.