The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.