That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.