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

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

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

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.