Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition o….

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today..

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough wi….

And we forget because we must and not because we will..

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world..

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit..

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed i….

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and ….

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge..

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery..

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things..

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate..

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent..

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life..

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims..

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light..

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next..

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion..

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the wor….