Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert ReadThe great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.
Herbert ReadIt was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
Herbert ReadA man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Herbert Read