My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

- William Soutar

Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

- William Soutar

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

- William Soutar

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.

- William Soutar