Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.