Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

I gotta use words to talk to you.

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.