As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.