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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

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