People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.