Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?