Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

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

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

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

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