To Be Wrong, And To Be Carefully

The Present Condition Of Fame Is Merely Fashion.

It Is Well Sometimes To Half Understand A Poem In The Same Manner That We Half Understand The World.

Every True Artist Does Feel, Consciously Or Unconsciously, That He Is Touching Transcendental Truths; That His Images Are Shadows Of Things Seen Through The Veil. In Other Words, The Natural Mystic Does Know That There Is Something There, Something Behind The Clouds Or Within The Trees; But He Believes That The Pursuit Of Beauty Is The Way To Find It; That Imagination Is A Sort Of Incantation That Can Call It Up.

If Our Caricaturists Do Not Hate Their Enemies, It Is Not Because They Are Too Big To Hate Them, But Because Their Enemies Are Not Big Enough To Hate.

A Puritan Is A Person Who Pours Righteous Indignation Into The Wrong Things.