Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.