The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The 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.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

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

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

But 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.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.