The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

Poetry must always have a moral purpose; it should instruct while it delights.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."