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.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

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.

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

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.