Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert ReadBut the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Herbert ReadThese are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
Herbert ReadThe work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
Herbert ReadPoetry 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.
Herbert Read