It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Wars are made to make debt.