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

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.