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

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.

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

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.

"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.

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.