The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.