The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.