A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.