Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.