Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

Sincerity is technique.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.