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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
You are the music while the music lasts.
This love is silent.
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.