This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.