Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.