Shakespeare Is A Good Raft Whereon To

Imagination Is Not The Exclusive Appanage Of Artists, But Belongs In Varying Degrees To All Men.

Literature Is At Once The Cause And The Effect Of Social Progress.

The Public Can Only Be Really Moved By What Is Genuine.

Literature Is At Once The Cause And The Effect Of Social Progress. It Deepens Our Natural Sensibilities, And Strengthens By Exercise Our Intellectual Capacities. It Stores Up The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Connecting Past And Present Into A Conscious Unity; And With This Store It Feeds Successive Generations, To Be Fed In Turn By Them.

Language, After All, Is Only The Use Of Symbols, And Art Also Can Only Affect Us Through Symbols.