A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.