Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
You are the music while the music lasts.
This love is silent.
Home is where one starts from.