That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Near a war is always not very near.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.