“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
