Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Literature is language charged with meaning
Either move or be moved.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establi...
If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Literature is news which stays news.