He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

Past art is subject to change.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.