I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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