"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.