Every moment is a fresh beginning.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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.

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