Lucy's Sabbath was generally of this amphibious nature. She kept it without hypocrisy in the morning, and broke it without reluctance in the afternoon.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Il vento le scompigliava i capelli, il sole li glorificava.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Aveva abbandonato ogni piano d'azione; l'amore è la cosa migliore.
Society is invincible—to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity—nothing that...
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
History develops, art stands still.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece. Deep and true as...
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns...